Escape From Amoeba by Both WASH-Mediated Constitutive Exocytosis and Vomocytosis.

is an environmental yeast that can cause opportunistic infections in humans. As infecting animals does not form part of its normal life-cycle, it has been proposed that the virulence traits that allow cryptococci to resist immune cells were selected through interactions with environmental phagocytes such as amoebae. Here, we investigate the interactions between and the social amoeba .

Nutritional Requirements and Their Importance for Virulence of Pathogenic Cryptococcus Species.

sp. are basidiomycete yeasts which can be found widely, free-living in the environment. Interactions with natural predators, such as amoebae in the soil, are thought to have promoted the development of adaptations enabling the organism to survive inside human macrophages.