Human Fungal Pathogens (IMAGE)
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Top left: Yeast cells of Candida parapsilosis phagocytosed by human primary macrophages. Killed cells are in red. (Image kindly provided by Attila Gacser and Csaba Papp, University of Szeged, Hungary.) Top middle: Scanning electron micrograph of yeasts (green) and pseudohyphae (brown) produced in a Candida tropicalis calcineurin mutant strain. (Image kindly provided by Ying-Lien Chen, National Taiwan University and reprinted from Evolution of Virulence in Eukaryotic Microbes, 2012, with permission from Wiley/Blackwell © 2012.) Top right: Scanning electron micrograph of an Aspergillus fumigatus ascospore. (Image provided by Bryan Hansen originally appeared in Kwon-Chung and Sugui 2013 [PLos Pathog 9: e1003743] and is reprinted with permission from the National Institutes of Health © 2013). Bottom left: Candida albicans-infected kidney tissue stained by Periodic Acid Schiff showing hyphal invasion in the renal medulla. (Image kindly provided by Michail Lionakis, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.) Bottom middle: A mature spherule of Coccidioides posadasii releasing endospores in the host lung. (Image reprinted from Cole et al. 2004 [Med Mycol 42: 189-216], with permission from Oxford University Press ©2004.) Bottom right: Four different images of a Cryptococcus neoformans yeast cell labeled with different reagents: red (capsule edge); green (complement protein bound to the inner capsule); and blue (cell wall stained by Calcoflour). (Image kindly provided by Oscar Zaragoza, Albert Einstein College of Medicine.)
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