Biological correlates of capsular (quellung) reactions of Cryptococcus neoformans.

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Published in J Immunol on May 01, 2000

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T C MacGill1, R S MacGill, A Casadevall, T R Kozel

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1: Department of Microbiology and Cell and Molecular Biology Program, School of Medicine, University of Nevada, Reno, NV 89557, USA.

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