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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed">I am happy to inform you that our recent paper on Leishmania axenic differentiation came out in the February issue of IJP (Bachmaeir et al. 2016. Int J Parasitol 46:75-82). The editor
decided to show our axenic L. donovani amastigotes and derived promastigotes on the cover page of this issue (see attached).<o:p></o:p></p>
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