Elizabeth R. Ballou

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Small 'titanide' cells identified as dominant Cryptococcus lung form

Led the titanide characterization study

An October 12 paper in PLOS Biology shows that the small end of Cryptococcus neoformans cell sizes matters as much as the giant titan cells that have defined its virulence for a decade. The fungus kills an estimated 180,000 people a year, most of them AIDS patients in sub-Saharan Africa.

Updated Oct 13