BLACKSBURG, Va., Aug. 6 -- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University issued the following news release:
A game of chess would be impossible to play if one didn't know what pieces occupied what squares and didn't understand how each piece moved.
That is the problem researchers have faced in devising any sort of treatment strategy for cryptococcal infections.
Kirsten Nielsen, professor of microbiology and immunology in the Center for One Health Research within the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine, is senior author on a paper published in mBio detailing research that sheds more light on the CD4 T-cells that keep Cryptococcus neoformans in check for the vast majority of human beings, until something happens that all...