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SUBMITTER: Albuquerque P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6797224 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Albuquerque Patrícia P Nicola André Moraes AM Magnabosco Diogo Almeida Gomes DAG Derengowski Lorena da Silveira LDS Crisóstomo Luana Soares LS Xavier Luciano Costa Gomes LCG Frazão Stefânia de Oliveira SO Guilhelmelli Fernanda F de Oliveira Marco Antônio MA Dias Jhones do Nascimento JDN Hurtado Fabián Andrés FA Teixeira Marcus de Melo MM Guimarães Allan Jefferson AJ Paes Hugo Costa HC Bagagli Eduardo E Felipe Maria Sueli Soares MSS Casadevall Arturo A Silva-Pereira Ildinete I
PLoS neglected tropical diseases 20191007 10
Paracoccidioides spp. are thermodimorphic fungi that cause a neglected tropical disease (paracoccidioidomycosis) that is endemic to Latin America. These fungi inhabit the soil, where they live as saprophytes with no need for a mammalian host to complete their life cycle. Despite this, they developed sophisticated virulence attributes allowing them not only to survive in host tissues but also to cause disease. A hypothesis for selective pressures driving the emergence or maintenance of virulence ...[more]