Resistance to amphotericin B associated with defective sterol delta 8-->7 isomerase in a Cryptococcus neoformans strain from an AIDS patient.

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Published in FEMS Microbiol Lett on September 15, 1994

Authors

S L Kelly1, D C Lamb, M Taylor, A J Corran, B C Baldwin, W G Powderly

Author Affiliations

1: Krebs Institute for Biomolecular Research, Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Sheffield University, UK.

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