Combining natural language processing and metabarcoding to reveal pathogen-environment associations.

• Main Authors: David C Molik (Author), DeAndre Tomlinson (Author), Shane Davitt (Author), Eric L Morgan (Author), Matthew Sisk (Author), Benjamin Roche (Author), Natalie Meyers (Author), Michael E Pfrender (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2021-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Cryptococcus neoformans is responsible for life-threatening infections that primarily affect immunocompromised individuals and has an estimated worldwide burden of 220,000 new cases each year-with 180,000 resulting deaths-mostly in sub-Saharan Africa. Surprisingly, little is known about the ecologic...