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Intracranial fusarium fungal abscess in an immunocompetent patient: case report and review of the literature. [PDF]

, 2014
Introduction Fusarium spp is an omnipresent fungal species that may lead to fatal infections in immunocompromised populations. Spontaneous intracranial infection by Fusarium spp in immunocompetent individuals is exceedingly rare.
Cadden, Joseph, Commins, Deborah, Giannotta, Steven L, Lee, Brian, Peterson, Asa, Pham, Martin H, Zada, Gabriel   +6 more
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Chronic Candida dubliniensis meningitis in a lung transplant recipient

Medical Mycology Case Reports, 2019
Candida spp. are common colonizers of the oral mucosa and respiratory tract in lung transplant recipients. Although thought to be non-pathogenic in most cases, donor derived infections related to Candida spp. have been described. Among the manifestations
Sabina Herrera, Paolo Pavone, Deepali Kumar, Lianne Singer, Atul Humar, Cecilia Chaparro, Shaf Keshavjee, Shahid Husain, Coleman Rotstein   +8 more
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Vaccination Coverage among Immunocompromised Patients in a Large Health Maintenance Organization: Findings from a Novel Computerized Registry

Vaccines, 2022
Immune-compromised patients (IPs) are at high risk for infections, some of which are preventable by vaccines. Specific vaccines are recommended for IP; however, the vaccination rate is suboptimal.
Shirley Shapiro Ben David, Iris Goren, Vered Mourad, Amos Cahan   +3 more
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An immunocompromised dialysis patient with skin and bone lesions [PDF]

, 2010
Patients with chronic kidney failure have disturbances of immune function involving both innate and adaptive systems. These result in both immunodepression which increases susceptibility to infection and immunoactivation leading to a chronic inflammatory
Brown, Griffith, Jarzembowski, Katoch, Swenson, Uslan, Wallace, Wallace   +7 more
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Epidemiological and Clinical Characteristics of Non-Typhoidal Salmonella Bloodstream Infections in Central Israel: A Case-Control Study

Microorganisms, 2022
Non-typhoidal Salmonella (NTS) infection continues to be a significant cause of morbidity. In addition to gastroenteritis (GE), NTS may cause bloodstream infections (BSI).
Yael Israel, Khitam Muhsen, Assaf Rokney, Amos Adler   +3 more
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Cancer therapeutic potential of combinatorial immuno- and vaso-modulatory interventions [PDF]

, 2015
Currently, most of the basic mechanisms governing tumor-immune system interactions, in combination with modulations of tumor-associated vasculature, are far from being completely understood.
Alfonso, J. C. L., Hatzikirou, H., Meyer-Hermann, M., Muhle, S., Stern, C., Weiss, S.   +5 more
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Development of transplantable B-cell lymphomas in the MHC-defined miniature swine model

Cancer Cell International, 2019
Background Establishment of transplantable tumors in clinically relevant large animals allows translational studies of novel cancer therapeutics. Methods Here we describe the establishment, characterization, and serial transplantation of a naturally ...
Alec R. Andrews, Zhaohui Wang, Robert A. Wilkinson, Jay A. Fishman, David H. Sachs, Nalu Navarro-Alvarez, Christene A. Huang   +6 more
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Block of death-receptor apoptosis protects mouse cytomegalovirus from macrophages and is a determinant of virulence in immunodeficient hosts. [PDF]

, 2012
The inhibition of death-receptor apoptosis is a conserved viral function. The murine cytomegalovirus (MCMV) gene M36 is a sequence and functional homologue of the human cytomegalovirus gene UL36, and it encodes an inhibitor of apoptosis that binds to ...
A Orvedahl, A Schaap-Nutt, A Skaletskaya, AL McCormick, C Mack, C Menard, Carlos A. Guzmán, CE Patterson, D Arnoult, D Lembo, HG Burgert, I Jurak, J Bertin, JL Davignon, JW Upton, L Cicin-Sain, L Cicin-Sain, Linda Ebermann, LK Hanson, Luka Čičin-Šain, M Chaumorcel, M Reboredo, Michele Barry, MJ Reddehase, ML Nguyen, N van Rooijen, N van Rooijen, N van Rooijen, Nico van Rooijen, P Lucin, PM Fliss, Rosaely Casalegno-Garduño, S Hamano, Ulrich Koszinowski, VS Goldmacher, W Brune, W Brune, WJ Kaiser, Zsolt Ruzsics   +38 more
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Significant Mortality Reduction from Severe Pneumocystis jirovecii Pneumonia in People Living with HIV and Treated in the Intensive Care Unit, Croatia, 2002–2023

Pathogens
Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia (PCP) remains a frequent cause of intensive care unit (ICU) admission among people living with HIV (PLWH), despite widespread antiretroviral therapy (ART) use. We conducted a retrospective cohort study of 39 PLWH with PCP
Filip Glavač, Lucija Dragošević, Josip Begovac, Marko Kutleša, Anita Atelj, Martina Vargović, Šime Zekan, Đivo Ljubičić, Ana Čičmak, Marija Santini   +9 more
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Rhino-oculo-cerebral aspergillus and mucor co-infections in an immunocompromised patient with type 2 diabetes mellitus

Medical Journal of Dr. D.Y. Patil University, 2014
Mucormycosis are pathogenic moulds of the mucorales species usually occurring in immunocompromised patients or in patients with uncontrolled diabetes mellitus.
Kalidas Rit, Rajdeep Saha, Rupali Dey, Gautam Barik   +3 more
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