The role of Candida albicans oxidative stress responses in triggering filament formation and macrophage escape following phagocytosis
Candida albicans is an important opportunistic fungal pathogen which causes life threatening systemic diseases in immunocompromised people. An important virulence attribute of C. albicans is morphological plasticity. Yeasts engulfed by macrophages can transition to a hyphal filamentous morphology wh...
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University of Newcastle upon Tyne
2018
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Online Access: | https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.765372 |