False friends: Phagocytes as Trojan horses in microbial brain infections

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Felipe H. Santiago-Tirado

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Tamara L. Doering

* E-mail: doering@wustl.edu

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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