Study takes aim at opportunistic fungal pathogens
Thursday, June 18, 2009 - 10:21
in Biology & Nature
An international team, including researchers from the Broad Institute, decoded and analyzed the genomes of fungal species that cause bloodstream infections. Their findings offer some initial clues about what makes some fungi pathogenic and others not.
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