Nature Communications
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Re-thinking the role of filamentation in systemic candidiasis
Filamentation is considered to be an essential virulence trait of the fungus Candida albicans. Here we show that lack of filamentation can be compensated by enhanced proliferation, leading to lethal candidiasis.
