Similarities between the intracellular pathogenic strategies of the bacteriumYersinia pestis and the fungus Cryptococcus neoformansare used to illustrate the author's proposal that these pathogens acquired their intracellular survival strategies by a process of convergent evolution, possibly in response to interactions with other hosts in the environment, such as amoebae.
- James B. Bliska
- Arturo Casadevall
