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Environmental interactions with amoebae as drivers of bacterial-fungal endosymbiosis and pathogenicity
H. Itabangi, P. Sephton-Clark, X. Zhou…·K. Voelz
The paper identifies a bacterial endosymbiont in Rhizopus microsporus that enhances fungal virulence by suppressing amoeba predation and macrophage clearance.