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- who: Herbert Itabangi from the Institut University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham , TT, UK have published the article: A bacterial endosymbiont of the fungus Rhizopus microsporus drives phagocyte evasion and opportunistic virulence, in the Journal: (JOURNAL) of March/14,/2022
- what: The authors show that a clinical isolate of Rhizopus microsporus contains a Ralstonia pickettii bacterial endosymbiont required for virulence both zebrafish and mice and that this endosymbiosis enables the secretion of factors that potently suppress growth of the soil amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum as well as their ability to engulf and kill other microbes. As amoebas . . .
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