Virulence differences in mice of type A and B Histoplasma capsulatum yeasts grown in continuous light and total darkness.
Type B yeasts were more virulent for mice than type A under most experimental conditions. Mice infected with type B yeasts grown in the light lived significantly longer than those with type B yeasts grown in the dark. Virulence differences of type A yeasts grown in continuous fluorescent light versus total darkness were not statistically significant.
D000818:Animals; D005453:Fluorescence; D006658:Histoplasma / Q000472:pathogenicity*; D006660:Histoplasmosis / Q000276:immunology; D008027:Light; D051379:Mice; D010641:Phenotype; D014774:Virulence