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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Main Author: Achan, Beatrice
Published: University of Newcastle upon Tyne 2018
Online Access:https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.765372