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Lipid Flippase Subunit Cdc50 Mediates Drug Resistance and Virulence in Cryptococcus neoformans.
mBio - 10 May 2016
Huang Wei, Liao Guojian, Baker Gregory M, Wang Yina, Lau Richard, Paderu Padmaja, Perlin David S, Xue Chaoyang
Abstract excerpt
UNLABELLED: Cryptococcus neoformans is a human fungal pathogen and a major cause of fungal meningitis in immunocompromised individuals. Treatment options for cryptococcosis are limited. Of the two major antifungal drug classes, azoles are active against C. neoformans but exert a fungistatic effect, necessitating long treatment regimens and leaving open an avenue for emergence of azole resistance. Drugs of the...
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