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Research Article | Host-Microbe Biology

Variation in Cell Surface Hydrophobicity among Cryptococcus neoformans Strains Influences Interactions with Amoebas

Raghav Vij, Carina Danchik, Conor Crawford, Quigly Dragotakes, Arturo Casadevall
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DOI: 10.1128/mSphere.00310-20
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DOI 
https://doi.org/10.1128/mSphere.00310-20
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32350094

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  • Received April 6, 2020
  • Accepted April 14, 2020
  • Published online April 29, 2020.

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Copyright © 2020 Vij et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.
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  1. Raghav Vija*,
  2. Carina Danchika,
  3. Conor Crawforda,b,
  4. Quigly Dragotakesa and
  5. Arturo Casadevalla
  1. aDepartment of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
  2. bCentre for Synthesis and Chemical Biology, University College Dublin, Belfield, Ireland
  • Address correspondence to Arturo Casadevall, acasade1{at}jhu.edu.
  • ↵* Present address: Raghav Vij, Department of Microbial Pathogenicity Mechanisms, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology—Hans-Knöll-Institute, Jena, Germany.

  • Citation Vij R, Danchik C, Crawford C, Dragotakes Q, Casadevall A. 2020. Variation in cell surface hydrophobicity among Cryptococcus neoformans strains influences interactions with amoebas. mSphere 5:e00310-20. https://doi.org/10.1128/mSphere.00310-20.

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