A Novel Virulence Phenotype Rapidly Assesses Candida Fungal Pathogenesis in Healthy and Immunocompromised Caenorhabditis elegans Hosts

Opportunistic pathogens are commensals capable of causing disease and are serious threats to human health. It is critical to understand the mechanisms and host contexts under which opportunistic pathogens become virulent. In this work, we present a novel assay to quickly and quantitatively measure p...

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Main Authors: Dorian J. Feistel, Rema Elmostafa, Nancy Nguyen, McKenna Penley, Levi Morran, Meleah A. Hickman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2019-04-01
Series:mSphere
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1128/mSphere.00697-18