According to findings by researchers at Duke Medicine, a potentially lethal fungal infection appears to gain virulence by being able to anticipate and disarm a hostile immune attack in the lungs. Defense mechanisms used by the fungus iCryptococcus neoformans/i enable it to lead to fatal meningitis, which is one of the opportunistic infections often associated with death in HIV/AIDS patients, organ transplant recipients, diabetics and other immunosuppressed ...
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