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Homeostatic control of an iron repressor in a GI tract resident

open access: yeseLife, 2023
The transition metal iron plays a crucial role in living cells. However, high levels of iron are potentially toxic through the production of reactive oxygen species (ROS), serving as a deterrent to the commensal fungus Candida albicans for colonization ...
Yuanyuan Wang   +16 more
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Fungal infections of the lung [PDF]

open access: yesCurrent Infectious Disease Reports, 1999
Fungi, both endemic and opportunistic, continue to be recognized as increasingly frequent pulmonary pathogens. Better appreciation of their epidemiology and clinical course, as well as clarification of the roles of the newer triazoles and lipid formulations of amphotericin B in treatment, have occurred within the past few years.
Anke V. Jacobs, Howard L. Leaf
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Infection by a foliar endophyte elicits novel arabidopside-based plant defence reactions in its host, Cirsium arvense [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Endophytic fungi live asymptomatically within plants. They are usually regarded as non-pathogenic or even mutualistic, but whether plants respond antagonistically to their presence remains unclear, particularly in the little-studied associations between ...
Alan C. Gange   +61 more
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Candida albicans pathogenicity mechanisms [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Peer reviewedPublisher ...
Alonso-Monge R   +10 more
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Fungal Infections

open access: yesProceedings of the American Thoracic Society, 1992
Increased travel and outdoor leisure activities place the elderly individual at risk for infection with the endemic mycoses, histoplasmosis, blastomycosis, coccidioidomycoses, and sporotrichosis. Elderly patients who are immunosuppressed are at risk for infection with the opportunistic fungi such as Candida and Aspergillus.
openaire   +3 more sources

Invasive fungal infections

open access: yesAfrican Journal of Thoracic and Critical Care Medicine, 2022
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Aspergillus fumigatus ffmA Encodes a C2H2-Containing Transcriptional Regulator That Modulates Azole Resistance and Is Required for Normal Growth

open access: yesmSphere, 2022
The production of a collection of deletion mutant strains corresponding to a large number of transcription factors from the filamentous fungal pathogen Aspergillus fumigatus has permitted rapid identification of transcriptional regulators involved in a ...
Sanjoy Paul   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Yin and yang of interleukin-17 in host immunity to infection [version 1; referees: 2 approved] [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The interleukin-17 (IL-17) family cytokines, such as IL-17A and IL-17F, play important protective roles in host immune response to a variety of infections such as bacterial, fungal, parasitic, and viral.
Das, Shibali, Khader, Shabaana
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Fungal infection strategies [PDF]

open access: yesVirulence, 2019
Fungi are increasingly recognized as the cause of not only superficial infections, which affect many people but are relatively easy to treat, but also invasive and disseminated infections.
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Cell Wall Composition Heterogeneity between Single Cells in Aspergillus fumigatus Leads to Heterogeneous Behavior during Antifungal Treatment and Phagocytosis

open access: yesmBio, 2020
Aspergillus fumigatus can cause a variety of lung diseases in immunocompromised patients, including life-threatening invasive aspergillosis. There are only three main classes of antifungal drugs currently used to treat aspergillosis, and antifungal ...
Robert-Jan Bleichrodt   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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