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Letter to the Editor

Opsonin-free, real-time imaging of Cryptococcus neoformans capsule during budding

Hugo Costa Paesa Faculty of Medicine, University of Brasília, Brasília, BrazilORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-1448-6852View further author information
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Stefânia de Oliveira Frazãob Graduate Programme in Microbial Biology, Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Brasília, Brasília, BrazilORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-0067-1969View further author information
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Camila Pereira Rosac Graduate Programme in Genomic Sciences and Biotechnology, Catholic University of Brasília, Brasília, BrazilView further author information
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Patrícia Albuquerqued Faculty of Ceilândia, University of Brasília, Brasília, BrazilORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-8160-7784View further author information
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Arturo Casadevalle Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USAORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-9402-9167View further author information
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Maria Sueli Soares Felipeb Graduate Programme in Microbial Biology, Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Brasília, Brasília, Brazil;c Graduate Programme in Genomic Sciences and Biotechnology, Catholic University of Brasília, Brasília, BrazilORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-4347-6853View further author information
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André Moraes Nicolaa Faculty of Medicine, University of Brasília, Brasília, Brazil;c Graduate Programme in Genomic Sciences and Biotechnology, Catholic University of Brasília, Brasília, BrazilCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 1483-1488 | Received 06 Sep 2017, Accepted 11 Jun 2018, Published online: 26 Sep 2018

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