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Chitosan biosynthesis and virulence in the human fungal pathogen <i>Cryptococcus gattii</i>

2019-09-05

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Cryptococcus gattii R265 is a hyper-virulent fungal strain responsible for the major outbreak of cryptococcosis in Vancouver Island of British Columbia in 1999. It differs significantly from C. neoformans in its natural environment, its preferred site in the mammalian host, and in the nature and mode of pathogenesis. Our previous studies in C. neoformans have shown that the presence of chitosan, the deacetylated...

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Literature Corpus work: e5379d25-f6ba-5ba7-b76b-ed132e34f642
DOI: 10.1101/759050

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