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The selective autophagy process in which a region of cytoplasm containing an intracellular pathogen or some part of an intracellular pathogen (e.g. viral capsid) is enclosed in a double membrane bound autophagosome, which then fuses with the lysosome leading to degradation of the contents. [GOC:autophagy, GOC:pad, GOC:PARL, PMID:19802565, PMID:20159618, PMID:25497060]
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