Isolation and characterization of a catalase-peroxidase gene from the pathogenic fungus, Penicillium marneffei

• Main Authors: Patthama Pongpom, Chester R. Cooper, Nongnuch Vanittanakom
• Format: Journal
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Agricultural and Biological Sciences; Immunology and Microbiology; Veterinary
• Online Access: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=24644485967&origin=inward; http://cmuir.cmu.ac.th/jspui/handle/6653943832/62009
• Institution: Chiang Mai University

Penicillium marneffei is a facultative intracellular pathogen that causes common opportunistic infection in AIDS patients in Southeast Asian countries. The pathogen can usually survive and replicate inside the phagosome of macrophages, and is also found extracellularly in blood smears or host tissue...