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A metalloproteinase of Coccidioides posadasii contributes to evasion of host detection.
Infection and immunity - 1 Oct 2005
Hung Chiung-Yu, Seshan Kalpathi R, Yu Jieh-Juen, Schaller Ruth, Xue Jianmin, Basrur Venkatesha, Gardner Malcolm J, Cole Garry T
Abstract excerpt
Coccidioides posadasii is a fungal respiratory pathogen of humans that can cause disease in immunocompetent individuals. Coccidioidomycosis ranges from a mild to a severe infection. It is frequently characterized either as a persistent disease that requires months to resolve or as an essentially asymptomatic infection that can reactivate several years after the original insult. In this report we describe a...
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