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Increased mortality associated with uncontrolled diabetes mellitus in patients with pulmonary cryptococcosis: a single US cohort study

Therapeutic Advances in Infectious Disease, 2021
Background: Diabetes mellitus is an established risk factor for bacterial infections, but its role in cryptococcosis is unclear. The study aimed to determine whether uncontrolled diabetes (HbA1c >7%) was an independent risk factor for mortality in ...
Solana Archuleta, Amal A. Gharamti, Stefan Sillau, Paula Castellanos, Sindhu Chadalawada, William Mundo, Mehdi Bandali, Jose Oñate, Ernesto Martínez, Daniel B. Chastain, Kristen DeSanto, Leland Shapiro, Ilan S. Schwartz, Carlos Franco-Paredes, Andrés F. Henao-Martínez   +14 more
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Pulmonary Cryptococcosis

Journal of Fungi, 2022
Pulmonary cryptococcosis describes an invasive lung mycosis caused by Cryptococcus neoformans or Cryptococcus gattii complex. It is often a high-consequence disease in both immunocompromised and immunocompetent populations, and may be misdiagnosed as ...
A. Howard-Jones, Rebecca Sparks, D. Pham, C. Halliday, J. Beardsley, S. Chen   +5 more
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Cryptococcosis and Cryptococcus [PDF]

Mycopathologia, 2021
Cryptococcosis is the collective heading of infections caused by members of the basidiomycetous yeast genus Cryptococcus, a notorious pathogen since the advent of the HIV/AIDS-pandemic. A cryptococcal infection usually manifests itself as a pneumonia and/
E. Francisco, Auke W. de Jong, F. Hagen
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Mortality by cryptococcosis in Brazil from 2000 to 2012: A descriptive epidemiological study.

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2019
BackgroundCryptococcosis is a neglected and predominantly opportunistic mycosis that, in Brazil, poses an important public health problem, due to its late diagnosis and high lethality.MethodsThe present study analysed cryptococcosis mortality in Brazil ...
Emmanuel Alves Soares, Márcia Dos Santos Lazera, Bodo Wanke, Marcela de Faria Ferreira, Raquel Vasconcellos Carvalhaes de Oliveira, Adeno Gonçalves Oliveira, Ziadir Francisco Coutinho   +6 more
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Clinical features and radiological characteristics of pulmonary cryptococcosis

Journal of International Medical Research, 2018
Objective Diagnosis of pulmonary cryptococcosis is difficult. In this study, we examined the clinical and radiological features that increase the diagnostic accuracy for pulmonary cryptococcosis.
Hui Deng, Jie Zhang, Jia Li, Dongxu Wang, Lei Pan, Xinying Xue   +5 more
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Developing mRNA lipid nanoparticle vaccine effective for cryptococcosis in a murine model [PDF]

npj Vaccines
Cryptococcus neoformans is considered a critical fungal pathogen by the World Health Organization and developing a vaccine for cryptococcosis is a top priority.
Yeqi Li, Suresh Ambati, Richard B. Meagher, Xiaorong Lin   +3 more
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Anti-GM-CSF Neutralizing Autoantibodies in Colombian Patients with Disseminated Cryptococcosis

Journal of Clinical Immunology, 2023
Cryptococcosis is a potentially life-threatening fungal disease caused by encapsulated yeasts of the genus Cryptococcus, mostly C. neoformans or C. gattii. Cryptococcal meningitis is the most frequent clinical manifestation in humans.
Carlos A. Arango-Franco, M. Migaud, I. Ramírez-Sánchez, Karen Arango-Bustamante, M. Moncada-Vélez, Julian Rojas, A. Gervais, Santiago Patiño-Giraldo, Lizeth J. Perez-Zapata, Jesús A Álvarez Álvarez, J. Orrego, Gustavo Roncancio-Villamil, S. Boisson-Dupuis, E. Jouanguy, L. Abel, J. Casanova, J. Bustamante, A. Arias, J. Franco, A. Puel   +19 more
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Cryptococcosis among hospitalised patients with COVID‐19: A multicentre research network study

Mycoses (Berlin), 2022
It is unclear if there is an association between COVID‐19 and cryptococcosis. Therefore, this study aimed to describe the clinical features, risk factors, and outcomes associated with cryptococcosis in hospitalised patients with COVID‐19.
D. Chastain, Vanessa M. Kung, Sahand Golpayegany, B. Jackson, C. Franco-Paredes, Lilian Vargas Barahona, G. Thompson, A. Henao-Martínez   +7 more
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Missed opportunities to identify cryptococcosis in COVID-19 patients: a case report and literature review

Therapeutic Advances in Infectious Disease, 2022
SARS-CoV-2 may activate both innate and adaptive immune responses ultimately leading to a dysregulated immune response prompting the use of immunomodulatory therapy.
D. Chastain, A. Henao-Martínez, Austin C. Dykes, Gregory M. Steele, L. Stoudenmire, Geren M. Thomas, Vanessa M. Kung, C. Franco-Paredes   +7 more
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Animal Histoplasmosis in Europe: Review of the Literature and Molecular Typing of the Etiological Agents

Journal of Fungi, 2022
Histoplasmosis has been previously diagnosed in animals from Europe. The aim of this study is to review the literature on these reports, to analyze cases diagnosed at our laboratory (2000–2022) and to improve molecular typing of Histoplasma capsulatum ...
Dunja Wilmes, Ursula Mayer, Peter Wohlsein, Michael Suntz, Jasmin Gerkrath, Christoph Schulze, Ina Holst, Wolf von Bomhard, Volker Rickerts   +8 more
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