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Quantifying donor-to-donor variation in macrophage responses to the human fungal pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2018
Garelnabi Mariam, Taylor-Smith Leanne M, Bielska Ewa, Hall Rebecca A, Stones Daniel, May Robin C
Abstract excerpt
Cryptococcosis remains the leading cause of fungal meningitis worldwide, caused primarily by the pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans. Symptomatic cryptococcal infections typically affect immunocompromised patients. However, environmental exposure to cryptococcal spores is ubiquitous and most healthy individuals are thought to harbor infections from early childhood onwards that are either resolved, or become latent....
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