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Fungal-mediated lung allergic airway disease: The critical role of macrophages and dendritic cells
PLoS Pathogens, 2022 Fungi are abundant in the environment, causing our lungs to be constantly exposed to a diverse range of species. While the majority of these are cleared effectively in healthy individuals, constant exposure to spores (especially Aspergillus spp.) can ...
J. Furlong-Silva, P. Cook
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Detection of hidden fungal infection in different respiratory diseases
Egyptian Journal of Chest Disease and Tuberculosis, 2021 Background Fungal infections of the respiratory system are down estimated, and the correct burden is unknown [1]. Invasive fungal infections are associated with high mortality rates of >50% [2].
Gehan A Abdelaal, Fatma Omar Khalil
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Clinical Manifestations of Human Exposure to Fungi
Journal of Fungi, 2023 Biological particles, along with inorganic gaseous and particulate pollutants, constitute an ever-present component of the atmosphere and surfaces.
Manuela Oliveira +4 more
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Frontiers in Microbiology, 2021 Air pollution is a leading cause of increasing infectious lung diseases. Pulmonary cryptococcosis is a fatal fungal pneumonia in acquired immunodeficiency syndrome patients.
Zhixiao Sun +9 more
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Upper respiratory tract mycobiome alterations in different kinds of pulmonary disease
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2023 IntroductionThe human respiratory tract is considered to be a polymicrobial niche, and an imbalance in the microorganism composition is normally associated with several respiratory diseases.
Xingye Xu +9 more
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International Journal of COPD, 2020 Chitinases, enzymes that cleave chitin’s chain to low molecular weight chitooligomers, are widely distributed in nature. Mammalian chitinases belong to the 18-glycosyl-hydrolase family and can be divided into two groups: true chitinases with enzymatic ...
Natalia Przysucha, K. Górska, R. Krenke
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BMC Infectious Diseases, 2022 Background Papiliotrema flavescens is a rare environmental yeast, which has been isolated from air, trees, kernels of wheat and corn, fermenting soya sauce, and cerebrospinal fluid of patient with AIDS.
Siang Zhang +5 more
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Management of fungal lung disease in the immunocompromised [PDF]
Therapeutic Advances in Respiratory Disease, 2011 Pulmonary mycoses are among the most feared infections encountered in immunocompromised patients. The problem is amplified by the increasing numbers of chronically immunocompromised patients that have substantially increased both the prevalence and clinical severity of infections caused by fungi.
Anowara Islam, Christopher H. Mody
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PLoS ONE, 2020 Environmental mold (fungus) exposure poses a significant threat to public health by causing illnesses ranging from invasive fungal diseases in immune compromised individuals to allergic hypertensive diseases such as asthma and asthma exacerbation in ...
Xianxian Wu +4 more
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Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 2020 The gut and lungs are anatomically distinct, but potential anatomic communications and complex pathways involving their respective microbiota have reinforced the existence of a gut–lung axis (GLA).
R. Enaud +6 more
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