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Candida albicans biofilm-defective mutants.
Eukaryotic cell - 1 Aug 2005
Richard Mathias L, Nobile Clarissa J, Bruno Vincent M, Mitchell Aaron P
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Biofilm formation plays a key role in the life cycles and subsistence of many microorganisms. For the human fungal pathogen Candida albicans, biofilm development is arguably a virulence trait, because medical implants that serve as biofilm substrates are significant risk factors for infection. The development of C. albicans biofilms in vitro proceeds through an early phase, in which yeast cells populate a...
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