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Use of morphology index histograms to quantify populations of the fungal pathogen Paracoccidioides brasiliensis.
Microbiology (Reading, England) - 1 Jan 1997
San-Blas Gioconda, Padr N Ra L, Alamo Lorenzo, San-Blas Felipe
Abstract excerpt
To quantify the dimorphic process in wild and mutant strains of Paracoccidioides brasiliensis, we defined a morphology index (Mi) in terms of the maximum cell length (l), maximum cell diameter (d), and septal diameter (s), according to the equation Mi = 2.13 + 1.13 log10 (ls/d2), whose intercept and slope were such that Mi was around 1 for yeast (spherical) cells or 4 for hyphal (elongated) cells. This...
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