Advances in combating fungal diseases: vaccines on the threshold.

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Published in Nat Rev Microbiol on December 11, 2006

Authors

Jim E Cutler1, George S Deepe, Bruce S Klein

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1: Department of Pediatrics and Microbiology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences, and Research Institute for Children at Children's Hospital, New Orleans, Louisiana, 70118 USA. jcutler@chnola-research.org

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