How Inhaled Fungal Spores Cause Fatal Meningitis (IMAGE)

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How Inhaled Fungal Spores Cause Fatal Meningitis

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Sneaky Spores: This image is of two immune cells (stained green). The smaller cell on top is empty. The larger cell on the bottom is full of the fungal pathogen Cryptococcus (stained blue). Instead of killing Cryptococcus, immune cells (i.e. alveolar macrophages) are implicated in helping Cryptococcus spores escape from the lung to cause disease in the brain.

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Walsh NM, et al. (2019)

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