Abstract
During his doctoral post stage Albert Einstein College of Medicine of New York, Dr. Fausto Almeida found that galectin-3 has lytic effect on extracellular vesicles of C. neoformans and detected elevated levels of galectin-3 in the course of cryptococcosis murine experimental. These observations motivate the proposal to study the galectin-3 interference in the course of infection by C. neo…