Cryptococcus neoformans variants generated by phenotypic switching differ in virulence through effects on macrophage activation.

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Published in Infect Immun on January 04, 2010

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A Guerrero1, N Jain, X Wang, B C Fries

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

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