Intraspecies Transcriptional Profiling Reveals Key Regulators of Candida albicans Pathogenic Traits
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: mBio
سال: 2021
ISSN: 2150-7511
DOI: 10.1128/mbio.00586-21