Through the wall: extracellular vesicles in Gram-positive bacteria, mycobacteria and fungi

Lisa Brown1, Julie M Wolf, Rafael Prados-Rosales1

  • 1Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York 10461, USA.

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