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From extraordinary endocytobionts to Pandoraviruses. Comment on Scheid et al.: Some secrets are revealed: Parasitic keratitis amoebae as vectors of the scarcely described pandoraviruses to humans

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The IGS laboratory is partially supported by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Aix-Marseille University. This article was written while the authors were visiting Prof. Jean-Laurent Casanova's laboratory at Rockefeller University, New York, USA. We thank Dr. Mary Ellen Conley for reading the manuscript.

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  1. Structural and Genomic Information Laboratory, UMR 7256 (IMM FR 3479) CNRS Aix-Marseille Université, Luminy campus, Marseille, France

    Jean-Michel Claverie & Chantal Abergel

  2. Assistance Publique des Hopitaux de Marseille. La Timone, 13005, Marseille, France

    Jean-Michel Claverie

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Claverie, JM., Abergel, C. From extraordinary endocytobionts to Pandoraviruses. Comment on Scheid et al.: Some secrets are revealed: Parasitic keratitis amoebae as vectors of the scarcely described pandoraviruses to humans. Parasitol Res 114, 1625–1627 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00436-014-4079-2

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