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Characterization of a 5-azacytidine-induced developmental Aspergillus fumigatus variant.
Virulence - 1 Jan 2000
Ben-Ami Ronen, Varga Varga, Lewis Russell E, May Gregory S, Nierman William C, Kontoyiannis Dimitrios P
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The hypomethylating agent 5-azacytidine (5AC) is widely used in patients at risk of invasive mycoses. We sought to determine whether 5AC affects the developmental competence and virulence of Aspergillus fumigatus. Incubation of A. fumigatus strain 293 with 5AC induced high-frequency conversion to...
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