Phagosome extrusion and host-cell survival after Cryptococcus neoformans phagocytosis by macrophages.

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Published in Curr Biol on November 07, 2006

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Mauricio Alvarez1, Arturo Casadevall

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1: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, 10461, USA.

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