The Fungal Cell Wall An Armour and a Weapon for Human Fungal Pathog

This book illustrates, that the fungal cell wall is critical for the biology and ecology of all fungi and especially for human fungal pathogens. Readers will learn, that the composition of the fungal cell wall is a unique structure, which cannot be found

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The Fungal Cell Wall An Armour and a Weapon for Human Fungal Pathogens

Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology Volume 425

Series Editors Rafi Ahmed School of Medicine, Rollins Research Center, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA Shizuo Akira Immunology Frontier Research Center, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan Klaus Aktories Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany Arturo Casadevall W. Harry Feinstone Department of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA Richard W. Compans Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA Jorge E. Galan Boyer Ctr. for Molecular Medicine, School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA Adolfo Garcia-Sastre Department of Microbiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA Bernard Malissen Parc Scientifique de Luminy, Centre d’Immunologie de Marseille-Luminy, Marseille, France Rino Rappuoli GSK Vaccines, Siena, Italy

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The Fungal Cell Wall An Armour and a Weapon for Human Fungal Pathogens Responsible Series Editor: Arturo Casadevall

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Editor Jean-Paul Latgé Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH) Institute of Molecular Biology and Technology Heraklion, Crete, Greece

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