Galleria mellonella as a model for fungal pathogenicity testing.

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Published in Methods Mol Biol on January 01, 2012

Authors

John Fallon1, Judy Kelly, Kevin Kavanagh

Author Affiliations

1: Medical Mycology Unit, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, County Kildare, Ireland.

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