Extracellular vesicles from Cryptococcus neoformans modulate macrophage functions.

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Published in Infect Immun on February 09, 2010

Authors

Débora L Oliveira1, Célio G Freire-de-Lima, Joshua D Nosanchuk, Arturo Casadevall, Marcio L Rodrigues, Leonardo Nimrichter

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1: Laboratório de Estudos Integrados em Bioquímica Microbiana, Instituto de Microbiologia Professor Paulo de Góes, Cidade Universitária, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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