Vaccine and Immunotherapeutic Approaches for the Prevention of Cryptococcosis: Lessons Learned from Animal Models

Cryptococcus neoformans and Cryptococcus gattii, the predominant etiological agents of cryptococcosis, can cause life-threatening infections of the central nervous system in immunocompromised and immunocompetent individuals. Cryptococcal meningoencephalitis is the most common disseminated fungal inf...

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Main Authors: Floyd Layton Wormley, Camaron R. Hole
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2012-08-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fmicb.2012.00291/full