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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 May 23.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Biol. 2012 Jul 24;22(14):R554–R555. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2012.05.040

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Micrograph of Cryptococcus cells stained with india ink.

The polysaccharide capsule is visible as a zone of clearing around the cell body. Two normal size cryptococcal cells have been phagocytosed by host cells. In contrast, the titan cells are too large to be phagocytosed.