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Phenotypic variability correlates with clinical outcome in <i>Cryptococcus</i> isolates obtained from Botswanan HIV/AIDS patients

2018-09-16

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Pathogenic species of Cryptococcus cause hundreds of thousands of deaths annually. Considerable phenotypic variation is exhibited during infection, including increased capsule size, capsule shedding, giant cells (≥ 15 μm) and micro cells (≤ 1 μm). We examined 70 clinical isolates of Cryptococcus neoformans and Cryptococcus tetragattii from HIV/AIDS patients in Botswana to determine if the capacity to produce mo...

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Literature Corpus work: d18b6d79-51b3-5e22-8bc5-f3481e3f6279
DOI: 10.1101/418897

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