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Nature Immunology 8, 17 - 18 (2007)
doi:10.1038/ni0107-17
DEteCTINg fungal pathogens
Catherine Dostert1 & Jürg Tschopp1
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Catherine Dostert and Jürg Tschopp are in the Department of Biochemistry, University of Lausanne, CH-1066 Epalinges, Switzerland.
e-mail: jurg.tschopp@unil.ch
Abstract
Fungal infection is 'sensed' by host cell–expressed receptors. Two papers demonstrate that the C-type lectin receptor dectin-1 is required in vivo for cytokine production and killing of different fungal pathogens.

