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Fluconazole Monotherapy Is a Suboptimal Option for Initial Treatment of Cryptococcal Meningitis Because of Emergence of Resistance [PDF]
mBio, 2019 Cryptococcal meningitis is a lethal disease with few therapeutic options. Induction therapy with fluconazole has been consistently demonstrated to be associated with suboptimal microbiological and clinical outcomes. Exposure to fluconazole causes dynamic
William Hope +14 more
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5-fluorocytosine resistance is associated with hypermutation and alterations in capsule biosynthesis in Cryptococcus [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2020 R Blake Billmyre +2 more
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eLife, 2022 Sexual reproduction is a ubiquitous, ancient eukaryotic trait. While most sexual organisms have to find a mating partner, species as diverse as animals, plants, and fungi have evolved the ability to reproduce sexually without requiring another individual.
Andrew Ryan Passer +11 more
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Journal of Fungi, 2023 Background: A clearer understanding is needed about the use of brain MRI in non-HIV patients with cryptococcal meningitis. Methods: Cerebral CT and MRI were studied in 62 patients in a multicenter study of cryptococcal meningitis in non-HIV patients.
Seher H. Anjum +5 more
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Frontiers in Medicine, 2022 Being introduced in 2010, fingolimod was among the first oral therapies for relapsing multiple sclerosis (MS). Since that time, postmarketing surveillance has noted several case reports of various cryptococcal infections associated with fingolimod use ...
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Opportunistic Fungal Infections in Immunocompromised Patients of a Tertiary Care Centre, Amritsar, India [PDF]
National Journal of Laboratory Medicine, 2022 Introduction: The incidence of opportunistic fungal infections has increased considerably in recent years. The clinical manifestations of these infections are non specific, and laboratory methods generally cannot diagnose infection at an initial ...
PAVNEET KAUR +2 more
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Conflicting interests in the pathogen-host tug of war : fungal micronutrient scavenging versus mammalian nutritional immunity [PDF]
, 2014 Funding: The authors are supported by the European Research Council (STRIFE project funded on grant number ERC-2009-AdG-249793, http://erc.europa.eu). AJPB is also supported by the Wellcome Trust (grant numbers 080088, 097377, www.wellcome.ac.uk) and the
Ballou, Elizabeth R +3 more
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Cryptococcal meningitis post-covid-19 infection: Immunomodulation, a double-edged sword
Journal of Infection in Developing Countries, 2023 Cryptococcal meningitis is an opportunistic infection associated with altered immunity. Immunomodulatory agent use in severe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) may predispose such infections.
Hilal W Abdessamad +10 more
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Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2023 Cases of cryptococcosis have been reported in patients with COVID-19. The majority are in patients with severe symptoms or who received immunosuppressants. However, there is still no clear association between COVID-19 and cryptococcosis.
Juana M. Huamani-Córdova +6 more
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Exogenous cryptococcal endophthalmitis in an immunocompetent patient
Taiwan Journal of Ophthalmology, 2023 We describe a case of exogenous cryptococcal endophthalmitis without central nervous system (CNS) involvement or systemic infection in an immunocompetent patient.
Daniel Zhu +7 more
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