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Fungal pathogenicity and morphological switches

Nature Genetics volume 42, pages 560–561 (2010)Cite this article

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The virulence of Candida albicans, a major human fungal pathogen, has been considered dependent on the ability to transition between different morphologies. A new study reports a screen of C. albicans mutants that demonstrates that pathogenesis can be dissociated from morphological switching and in vitro growth rate.

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Figure 1: Various morphological forms of C. albicans.

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  1. P. T. Magee is in the Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.,

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Magee, P. Fungal pathogenicity and morphological switches. Nat Genet 42, 560–561 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/ng0710-560

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