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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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Vomocytosis: Too Much Booze, Base, or Calcium? [PDF]

, 2019
Macrophages are well known for their phagocytic activity and their role in innate immune responses. Macrophages eat non-self particles, via a variety of mechanisms, and typically break down internalized cargo into small macromolecules.
Aaron, Alvarez, Alvarez, Artavanis-Tsakonas, Bain, Ben-Abdallah, Bielska, Blackstock, Boya, Bryan, Burch, Chang, Charlier, Chen, Cheng, Chu, Circu, Cox, Davis, De Leon-Rodriguez, De Leon-Rodriguez, Denham, Di, Diamond, Doshi, Dragotakes, Drew, Erb-Downward, Erwig, Evans, Feldmesser, Franchi, Fu, Gilbert, Gordon, Guerra, Gustafson, Haka, Han, Henson, Heo, Hibbs, Hoag, Hommel, Huang, Hybiske, Iwasaki, Johnston, Kjos, Kleinschek, Kruskal, Kusner, Lei, Leopold Wager, Levitz, Levitz, Lim, Liu, Lévêque, Ma, Maderna, May, Milam, Mosser, Murdock, Murray, Myers, Müller, Nel, Nicola, Nunes, Okagaki, O’Meara, Pauwels, Qiu, Rajasingham, Russell, Samantaray, Santiago-Tirado, Singh, Smith, Stukes, Stukes, Swisher, Tucker, Vashi, Voelz, Vu, Vu, Walkey, Wang, Wang, Watkins, Weiss, Wormley, Wozniak, Yates, Yoshida, Zaragoza   +98 more
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Rim Pathway-Mediated Alterations in the Fungal Cell Wall Influence Immune Recognition and Inflammation [PDF]

, 2017
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS We acknowledge Jennifer Lodge, Woei Lam, and Rajendra Upadhya for developing and sharing the chitin and chitosan MTBH assay. We thank Todd Brennan of Duke University for providing MyD88-deficient mice.
Carol Munro, Chrissy M. Leopold Wager, Floyd L. Wormley, J. Andrew Alspaugh, Jeanette Wagener, Kyla S. Ost, Louise Walker, Michael Lorenz, Shannon K. Esher   +8 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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A forkhead transcription factor contributes to the regulatory differences of pathogenicity in closely related fungal pathogens

mLife, 2022
Cryptococcus neoformans and its sister species Cryptococcus deuterogattii are important human fungal pathogens. Despite their phylogenetically close relationship, these two Cryptococcus pathogens are greatly different in their clinical characteristics ...
Weixin Ke, Yuyan Xie, Yue Hu, Hao Ding, Xin Fan, Jingjing Huang, Xiuyun Tian, Baokun Zhang, Yingchun Xu, Xiao Liu, Ying Yang, Linqi Wang   +11 more
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RNA interference screening reveals host CaMK4 as a regulator of cryptococcal uptake and pathogenesis [PDF]

, 2017
Cryptococcus neoformans , the causative agent of cryptococcosis, is an opportunistic fungal pathogen that kills over 200,000 individuals annually. This yeast may grow freely in body fluids, but it also flourishes within host cells.
Doering, Tamara L, Hole, Camaron R, Khader, Shabaana A, Srikanta, Deepa, Williams, Matthew   +4 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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Differential antifungal activity of human and cryptococcal melanins with structural discrepancies [PDF]

, 2017
Indexación: Scopus.Melanin is a pigment found in all biological kingdoms, and plays a key role in protection against ultraviolet radiation, oxidizing agents, and ionizing radiation damage. Melanin exerts an antimicrobial activity against bacteria, fungi,
Correa, N., Covarrubias, C., Hermosilla, G., Magne, F., Meyer, W., Olate, V.R., Rodas, P.I., Tapia, C.V., Valdés, C.   +8 more
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Cryptococcal infection of the ventriculoperitoneal shunt in an immunocompetent patient [PDF]

, 2016
Patient: Male, 52 Final Diagnosis: Cryptococcal ventriculoperitoneal shunt infection Symptoms: Confusion • fever • Lethargy Medication: Amphotericin B • Flucytosine Clinical Procedure: Ventriculoperitoneal shunt removal Specialty: Infectious disease ...
Foong, Kap Sum, Lee, Ashley, Vasquez, Gustavo   +2 more
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Asociacion de leveduras del genero Cryptococcus con especies de Eucalyptus en Santafe de Bogota Isolation of Cryptococcus sp. associated with Eucalyptus trees in Santafé de Bogota

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo, 1994
El aislamiento de Cryptococcus neoformans var. gattii, serotipo B, a partir del medio ambiente se estableció inicialmente en Australia en 1989, en asocio con el Eucalyptus camaldulensis y posteriormente con E. tereticornis. Con estos hallazgos se postuló
A. Duarte, N. Ordoñez, E. Castañeda
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