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Population genomics and the evolution of virulence in the fungal pathogen <i>Cryptococcus neoformans</i>

2017-03-19

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Cryptococcus neoformans is an opportunistic fungal pathogen that causes approximately 625,000 deaths per year from nervous system infections. Here, we leveraged a unique, genetically diverse population of C. neoformans from sub-Saharan Africa, commonly isolated from mopane trees, to determine how selective pressures in the environment coincidentally adapted C. neoformans for human virulence. Genome sequencing an...

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Literature Corpus work: f0524610-d28d-5079-a20f-045c7ff97753
DOI: 10.1101/118323

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