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Review
. 2001;2(3):REVIEWS1009.
doi: 10.1186/gb-2001-2-3-reviews1009. Epub 2001 Mar 5.

Fungal virulence studies come of age

F C Odds  1 , N A Gow, A J Brown
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Review

Fungal virulence studies come of age

F C Odds et al. Genome Biol. 2001.

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.

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