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Sporulation environment drives phenotypic variation in the pathogen Aspergillus fumigatus.
G3 (Bethesda, Md.) - 7 Aug 2021
Earl Kang S, Celia Brandi N, Bensasson Douda, Momany Michelle
Abstract excerpt
Aspergillus fumigatus causes more than 300,000 life-threatening infections annually and is widespread across varied environments with a single colony producing thousands of conidia, genetically identical dormant spores. Conidia are easily wind-dispersed to new environments where they can germinate and, if inhaled by susceptible hosts, cause disease. Using high-throughput single-cell analysis via flow cytometry we...
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