β-1,3-Glucan, Which Can Be Targeted by Drugs, Forms a Trabecular Scaffold in the Oocyst Walls of <italic toggle="yes">Toxoplasma</italic> and <italic toggle="yes">Eimeria</italic>
ABSTRACT The walls of infectious pathogens, which are essential for transmission, pathogenesis, and diagnosis, contain sugar polymers that are defining structural features, e.g., β-1,3-glucan and chitin in fungi, chitin in Entamoeba cysts, β-1,3-GalNAc in Giardia cysts, and peptidoglycans in bacteri...
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American Society for Microbiology
2012
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| Online Access: | https://doaj.org/article/de73b5bc33504372be351280c253957a |
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