A simple and reproducible 96-well plate-based method for the formation of fungal biofilms and its application to antifungal susceptibility testing.

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Published in Nat Protoc on January 01, 2008

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Christopher G Pierce1, Priya Uppuluri, Amanda R Tristan, Floyd L Wormley, Eilidh Mowat, Gordon Ramage, Jose L Lopez-Ribot

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1: Department of Biology and South Texas Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases, The University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas 78249, USA.

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