More complicated than it seems: The diversity of cryptococcal glucuronoxylomannan

Bianca A G Sena; Luisa J Jozefowicz; Marcio L Rodrigues

doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1011521

More complicated than it seems: The diversity of cryptococcal glucuronoxylomannan

PLoS Pathog. 2023 Aug 3;19(8):e1011521. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1011521. eCollection 2023 Aug.

Authors

Bianca A G Sena^{1

2}, Luisa J Jozefowicz^{1

3}, Marcio L Rodrigues^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Instituto Carlos Chagas, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz), Curitiba, Brazil.
² Instituto de Microbiologia Paulo de Góes (IMPG), Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
³ Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biologia Parasitária, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

No abstract available

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Cryptococcosis*
Cryptococcus neoformans*
Cryptococcus*
Meningitis, Cryptococcal*
Polysaccharides

Substances

glucuronoxylomannan
Polysaccharides

Grants and funding

M.L.R. is supported by grants from the Brazilian Ministry of Health (Ministério da Saúde, grant 440015/2018-9), and Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq; grants 304998/2022-2 and 405520/2018-2). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.