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Evasion of Innate Immune Responses by the Highly Virulent Cryptococcus gattii by Altering Capsule Glucuronoxylomannan Structure

Cryptococcus neoformans causes life-threatening diseases mainly in immunosuppressed hosts such as AIDS patients; C. gattii causes disseminated infections even in healthy hosts. To identify the possible molecular mechanisms underlying this difference in virulence, we investigated the survival and his...

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Autores principales: Urai, Makoto, Kaneko, Yukihiro, Ueno, Keigo, Okubo, Yoichiro, Aizawa, Tomoko, Fukazawa, Hidesuke, Sugita, Takashi, Ohno, Hideaki, Shibuya, Kazutoshi, Kinjo, Yuki, Miyazaki, Yoshitsugu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4701946/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26779451
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fcimb.2015.00101