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MinireviewFungal virulence studies come of ageFrank C Odds , Neil AR Gow and Alistair JP Brown Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Aberdeen, Institute of Medical Sciences, Aberdeen, AB25 2ZD, UK author email corresponding author email
Genome Biology 2001,
2:reviews1009.1-1009.4doi:10.1186/gb-2001-2-3-reviews1009
Subject areas: Microbiology and parasitology, Genetics, Molecular biology, Medicine Abstract
Sophisticated molecular biological research has revealed many virulence attributes in at least four pathogenic fungi, but the future study of fungal virulence requires investigators to distinguish between molecules that directly interact with the host, molecules that regulate these, and molecules that are always required for fungal growth and survival, independent of the host. |