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A Peptide from Budding Yeast GAPDH Serves as a Promising Antifungal against Cryptococcus neoformans

Microbiology Spectrum, 2022
Infection of Cryptococcus neoformans is one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality, particularly among immunocompromised patients. However, currently available drugs for the treatment of C. neoformans infection are minimal. Here, we report SP1,
Yang Zhang, Liyan Zhou, Yan Liu, Xi Zhao, Xianqiang Lian, Jie Zhang, De Zhao, Yujuan Wang, Jin Zhong, Junfeng Wang, Hongli Wang, Linqi Wang, Yu V. Fu   +12 more
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Pigment production on L-tryptophan medium by Cryptococcus gattii and Cryptococcus neoformans. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2014
In recent years strains previously grouped within Cryptococcus neoformans have been divided into two species C. neoformans and C. gattii, with Cryptococcus neoformans comprising serotypes A, D, and AD and C.
Stuart Chaskes, Michael Cammer, Edward Nieves, Arturo Casadevall   +3 more
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Cryptococcus neoformans and Other Opportunistic Cryptococcus Species in Pigeon Dropping in Saudi Arabia: Identification and Characterization by DNA Sequencing

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2021
The prevalent variants of Cryptococcus neoformans, and other Cryptococcus species in pigeon excreta in Western Region of Saudi Arabia were studied.
Bashir Sirag, El-Shiekh Khidir, Mohammed Dumyati, Basam Sindi, Mahir Alsinnari, Hani Faidah, Abdalla Ahmed   +6 more
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Concurrent Pulmonary and Cerebellar Cryptococcus Gattii Cryptococcoma in an Apparently Immunocompetent Patient in Florida

Case Reports in Infectious Diseases, 2021
Cryptococcus infection is caused by one of the two species, Cryptococcus neoformans, or the less common Cryptococcus gattii. While Cryptococcus neoformans commonly infects the immunocompromised population, Cryptococcus gattii has been seen more ...
Benjamin Billings, Neeka Akhavan, Amy Vittor, Ying Nagoshi   +3 more
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Glucosylceramide Administration as a Vaccination Strategy in Mouse Models of Cryptococcosis. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2016
Cryptococcus neoformans is an opportunistic fungal pathogen and the causative agent of the disease cryptococcosis. Cryptococcosis is initiated as a pulmonary infection and in conditions of immune deficiency disseminates to the blood stream and central ...
Visesato Mor, Amir M Farnoud, Ashutosh Singh, Antonella Rella, Hiromasa Tanno, Keiko Ishii, Kazuyoshi Kawakami, Toshiya Sato, Maurizio Del Poeta   +8 more
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Primeira descrição da caracterização fenotípica e susceptibilidade in vitro a drogas de leveduras do gênero Cryptococcus spp isoladas de pacientes HIV positivos e negativos, Estado de Mato Grosso First description of phenotypic profile and in vitro drug susceptibility of Cryptococcus spp yeast isolated from HIV-positive and HIV-negative patients in State of Mato Grosso

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 2009
Foram avaliados 37 isolados de 10 pacientes HIV negativos e 26 positivos, em Mato Grosso. Exame direto, cultura e quimiotipagem de espécies foram realizados. Cetoconazol, itraconazol, voriconazol, fluconazol e anfotericina B foram avaliados.
Olivia Cometti Favalessa, Luciano Correa Ribeiro, Tomoko Tadano, Cor Jesus Fernandes Fontes, Flávio Basili Dias, Bruno Pereira Albuquerque Coelho, Rosane Christine Hahn   +6 more
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Cryptococcus neoformans endocarditis in an immunocompetentpatient a case report

BMC Cardiovascular Disorders, 2022
Background Cryptococcus neoformans is an invasive fungal infection commonly affecting immunocompromised patients as pneumonia or meningitis. More rarely, case reports describe Cryptococcus neoformans endocarditis, though nearly exclusively among patients
Colin N. McGuire, Dylan J. Walter
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Les infections à Cryptococcus neoformans chez les patients infectés par le VIH : à propos de 27 cas

Revue Malienne d’Infectiologie et de Microbiologie, 2020
But du travail : Décrire les profils épidémiologiques, clinico-paracliniques, thérapeutiques et évolutifs des patients infectés par le VIH qui ont présenté une infection à Cryptococcus neoformans.
FN Etoughe, M Raiteb, YB Komba, F Ihhibane, R Moutai, N Tassi   +5 more
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Cryptococcus Neoformans Infection and Immune Cell Regulation in Human Monocytes

Cellular Physiology and Biochemistry, 2015
Background/Aims: Cryptococcus neoformans infections are becoming increasingly prevalent and remain a life-threatening clinical issue in immune-compromised hosts. The microorganism evades a variety of endogenous anti-fungal mechanims of host immune cells.
Sunxiao Chen, Hongli Yan, Lei Zhang, Wei Kong, Yi Sun, Weiwei Zhang, Yan Chen, Anmei Deng   +7 more
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Adaptive Immunity to Cryptococcus neoformans Infections

Journal of Fungi, 2017
The Cryptococcus neoformans/Cryptococcus gattii species complex is a group of fungal pathogens with different phenotypic and genotypic diversity that cause disease in immunocompromised patients as well as in healthy individuals.
Liliane Mukaremera, Kirsten Nielsen
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