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" Molecular principles of fungal pathogenesis "
edited by Joseph Heitman, Scott G. Filler, John E. Edwards, Jr., and Aaron P. Mitchell.
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756109
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edited by Joseph Heitman, Scott G. Filler, John E. Edwards, Jr., and Aaron P. Mitchell.
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Molecular principles of fungal pathogenesis\ edited by Joseph Heitman, Scott G. Filler, John E. Edwards, Jr., and Aaron P. Mitchell.
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Washington, D.C. : ASM Press, ©2006.
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Monograph, ASM Press.
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1 ressource en ligne (xvi, 684 pages) : illustrations (en partie en couleur), carte.
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1555815774
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: 9781555815776
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Fungal molecular pathogenesis : what can it do and why do we need it? / John R. Perfect and Arturo Casadevall --; Sex, MAT, and the evolution of fungal virulence / James A. Fraser and Joseph Heitman --; Postgenomic strategies for genetic analysis : insight from Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Candida albicans / Clarissa J. Nobile and Aaron P. Mitchell --; Candida albicans hypha formation and virulence / Paula Sundstrom --; The conversion from classical studies in fungal pathogenesis to the molecular era / Kyung J. Kwon-Chung and Brian L. Wickes --; Mating and parasexual genetics in Candida albicans / Mathew Miller and Alexander Johnson --; The mating-type locus and mating of Candida albicans and Candida glabrata / David R. Soll --; Evolution of human pathogenic fungi : phylogenies and species / John W. Taylor --; Establishment of cell identity in pathogenic fungi / Christina M. Hull --; Signal transduction in the interactions of fungal pathogens and mammalian hosts / Malcolm Whiteway and Catherine Bachewich --; Function and regulation of adhesin gene families in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Candida albicans, and Candida glabrata / Irene Castaño, Alejandro de las Peñas, and Brendan P. Cormack. Fungal biofilms : agents of disease and drug resistance / Gordon Ramage, Mahmoud A. Ghannoum, and José L. López-Ribot --; Molecular basis of fungal adherence to endothelial and epithelial cells / Scott G. Filler, Donald C. Sheppard, and John E. Edwards, Jr. --; Molecular principles of antifungal drug resistance / Dominique Sanglard and Theodore C. White --; Heterologous hosts and the evolution and study of fungal pathogenesis / Eleftherios Mylonakis, Stephen B. Calderwood, and Frederick M. Ausubel --; Amoeba and slime mold: hosts of virulence evolution / Arturo Casadevall --; Aspergillus nidulans : a model for elucidation of Aspergillus fumigatus secondary metabolism / Nancy Keller --; Saccharomyces cerevisiae : an emerging and model pathogenic fungus / John H. McCusker --; Fungal-bacterial interactions / Deborah A. Hogan and Roberto Kolter --; Amphibian chytridiomycosis as an emerging infectious disease of wildlife : what can we learn from the earliest diverging fungi? / Timothy Y. James and Rytas Vilgalys --; Cryptococcus neoformans : a sugar-coated killer / John R. Perfect --; Toward a molecular understanding of Candida albicans virulence / Frank C. Odds, Neil A.R. Gow, and Alistair J.P. Brown --; Molecular determinants of Histoplasma capsulatum pathogenesis / Jon P. Woods --; Molecular determinants of virulence in Aspergillus fumigatus / Judith C. Rhodes and Axel A. Brakhage --; Pathogenesis of pneumocystis / A. George Smulian and Melanie T. Cushion. Virulence mechanisms of coccidioides / Garry T. Cole [and others] --; Blastomyces dermatitidis cell surface determinants and their application in vaccine development / Bruce Klein --; Virulence factors in black molds with emphasis on melanin, chitin, and Wangiella as a molecularly tractable model / Paul J. Szaniszlo --; Zygomycetes as agents of infectious disease in humans / Ashraf S. Ibrahim and Brad Spellberg --; Signaling pathways in the dimorphic human fungal pathogen Penicillium marneffei / Alex Andrianopoulos and Sophie Zuber --; Innate humoral immunity to fungi / Thomas R. Kozel --; Innate and acquired cellular immunity to fungi / Luigina Romani --; Acquired antibody-mediated immunity to fungi / Liise-anne Pirofski and Arturo Casadevall --; Site-specific mucosal immunity to fungi : lessons learned from Candida albicans applied to other fungi / Paul L. Fidel, Jr. and Beatriz Finkel-Jimenez --; Intracellular pathogenesis of Histoplasma capsulatum / Simon L. Newman --; Interactions of immune cells with the facultative intracellular pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans / Lauren E. Yauch and Stuart M. Levitz. Fungal interactions with leukocytes / Mairi C. Noverr [and others] --; Fungal vaccine development / Joshua D. Nosanchuk and George S. Deepe Jr. --; Molecular immunopathogenesis of innate host defense against chronic disseminated (hepatosplenic) candidiasis / Thomas J. Walsh [and others] --; Studying fungal virulence using genomics / Michael C. Lorenz --; Future of functional genomics of Histoplasma capsulatum / Anita Sil and Lena Hwang --; Functional genomic approaches to fungal pathogenesis, drug target validation, and antifungal drug discovery / Ainslie B. Parsons, Howard Bussey, and Charles Boone --; Genetic and proteomic analysis of fungal virulence / Jennifer K. Lodge and Michael C. Lorenz --; Genomic perspectives on the fungal kingdom / Jason E. Stajich and Fred S. Dietrich.
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Annotation provides a state & ndash;of & ndash;the & ndash;art review of medical mycology compiled by the leading researchers in the field;presents a selection of chapters covering immunological aspects of infection;captures the excitement of recently completed genome projects and their impact on the understanding of fungal biology and virulence;examines the recent advances in the development of fungal vaccines;features an in & ndash;depth analysis of the host & ndash;pathogen relationship.
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Fungi -- pathogenicity.
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Histology, Pathological.
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Pathogenic fungi -- Molecular aspects.
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QR245.E358 2006
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Aaron Peter Mitchell
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John E Edwards
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Joseph Heitman
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Scott G Filler
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