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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Candida albicans
SUBMITTER: AFG AFG
PROVIDER: E-MEXP-1933 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Eukaryotic cell 20090116 3
A selection of 43 Candida albicans isolates, chosen to represent the four major strain clades of the species and also intraclade diversity, was screened for their virulence in the murine intravenous challenge model of C. albicans infection, for a range of properties measurable in vitro that might relate to virulence, and for the numbers of midrepeat sequences in genes of the ALS and HYR families. Heterozygosity at the mating type locus and low whole-cell acid phosphatase activity and growth rate ...[more]