Paracoccidioidomycosis: No genetic damage in human peripheral blood cells of patients assessed by single-cell gel (comet) assay


Autoria(s): Ribeiro-Vieira, Renata Aparecida Martinez Antunes; Ribeiro, Daniel Araki; Salvadori, Daisy Maria Favero; Marques, Silvio Alencar
Contribuinte(s)

Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)

Data(s)

27/05/2014

27/05/2014

01/07/2007

Resumo

Paracoccidioidomycosis is a systemic fungal infection caused by Paracoccidioides brasiliensis. As infectious diseases can cause DNA damage, the authors aimed at analyzing DNA breakage in peripheral blood cells of patients with paracoccidioidomycosis by using the comet assay. The results suggested that paracoccidioidomycosis does not cause genotoxicity.

Formato

476-478

Identificador

http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0037-86822007000400021

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, v. 40, n. 4, p. 476-478, 2007.

0037-8682

http://hdl.handle.net/11449/69742

10.1590/S0037-86822007000400021

S0037-86822007000400021

WOS:000249209400021

2-s2.0-34548595205

2-s2.0-34548595205.pdf

Idioma(s)

eng

Relação

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

Direitos

openAccess

Palavras-Chave #Comet assay #DNA #Genotoxicity #Paracoccidioides brasiliensis #Paracoccidioidomycosis #adult #analysis of variance #analytic method #blood cell #clinical article #comet assay #comparative study #controlled study #DNA damage #DNA strand breakage #genotoxicity #human #mycology #serology #South American blastomycosis #Adult #Comet Assay #DNA Damage #Humans #Leukocytes, Mononuclear
Tipo

info:eu-repo/semantics/article