A hidden battle in the dirt: Soil amoebae interactions with Paracoccidioides spp.

• Main Authors: Patrícia Albuquerque (Author), André Moraes Nicola (Author), Diogo Almeida Gomes Magnabosco (Author), Lorena da Silveira Derengowski (Author), Luana Soares Crisóstomo (Author), Luciano Costa Gomes Xavier (Author), Stefânia de Oliveira Frazão (Author), Fernanda Guilhelmelli (Author), Marco Antônio de Oliveira (Author), Jhones do Nascimento Dias (Author), Fabián Andrés Hurtado (Author), Marcus de Melo Teixeira (Author), Allan Jefferson Guimarães (Author), Hugo Costa Paes (Author), Eduardo Bagagli (Author), Maria Sueli Soares Felipe (Author), Arturo Casadevall (Author), Ildinete Silva-Pereira (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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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...