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Glyoxylate cycle presents sweet opportunity
Email: David Bruce - david.bruce@biomedcentral.com News from The Scientist 2001, 2(1):20010709-02
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The fungus Candida albicans is found in the normal intestinal flora of mammals but is responsible for most of the fungal infections seen in immunocompromised patients. Candida is normally phagocytosed by macrophages and neutrophils and patients deficient in these immune cells are clearly highly susceptible to systemic candidiasis.
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