Characterization of the virulence of Cryptococcus neoformans strains in an insect model

Virulence. 2015;6(8):809-13. doi: 10.1080/21505594.2015.1086868. Epub 2015 Sep 12.

Tejas Bouklas¹, Elizabeth Diago-Navarro¹, Xiaobo Wang², Marc Fenster², Bettina C Fries^{1

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¹ a Department of Medicine (Division of Infectious Diseases) ; Stony Brook University ; Stony Brook , NY USA.
² b Department of Medicine (Division of Infectious Diseases) ; Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University ; Bronx , NY USA.
³ c Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics ; Stony Brook University ; Stony Brook , NY USA.
⁴ d Department of Microbiology and Immunology ; Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University ; Bronx , NY USA.

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Keywords: Cryptococcus neoformans; Galleria mellonella; fungal pathogenesis; host pathogen; mice; virulence; waxworm.

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