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

, 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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The pathology of fungal disease in the lung

Seminars in Roentgenology, 1996
The gross and histological appearance of pulmonary mycotic disease is rarely pathognomonic for a particular entity. Tissue obtained through an invasive procedure is usually necessary for a specific diagnosis. Pathological diagnosis is directed by the pattern of inflammation and based on the morphological identification of fungi.
openaire   +3 more sources

Not all Nodules Are Cancer and not all Fungal Infections Are Aspergillus

Acta Médica Portuguesa, 2022
Pithomyces, a dematiaceous fungus, is a common colonizer of dead leaves and stems of many different plants and is associated with facial eczema in some animals.
Ana Fonseca, David Afonso-João, Gabriela Abreu, Daniel Coutinho   +3 more
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The gut-lung axis: the impact of the gut mycobiome on pulmonary diseases and infections

Oxford Open Immunology
The gastrointestinal tract contains a diverse microbiome consisting of bacteria, fungi, viruses and archaea. Although these microbes usually reside as commensal organisms, it is now well established that higher abundance of specific bacterial or fungal ...
Emily A Sey, A. Warris
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Gut microbiota in HIV-pneumonia patients is related to peripheral CD4 counts, lung microbiota, and in vitro macrophage dysfunction. [PDF]

, 2019
Pneumonia is common and frequently fatal in HIV-infected patients, due to rampant, systemic inflammation and failure to control microbial infection. While airway microbiota composition is related to local inflammatory response, gut microbiota has been ...
Byanyima, Patrick, Chang, Emily, Davis, J Lucian, Fadrosh, Douglas W, Fong, Serena, Huang, Laurence, Kaswabuli, Sylvia, Lin, Din L, Lynch, Susan V, McCauley, Kathryn, Musisi, Emmanuel, Sanyu, Ingvar, Shenoy, Meera K, Worodria, William, Zawedde, Josephine   +14 more
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A CT-based nomogram for differentiating invasive fungal disease of the lung from bacterial pneumonia

BMC Medical Imaging, 2022
Abstract Background There is an annual increase in the incidence of invasive fungal disease (IFD) of the lung worldwide, but it is always a challenge for physicians to make an early diagnosis of IFD of the lung. Computed tomography (CT) may play a certain role in the diagnosis of IFD of the lung, however, there are no ...
Meilin Gong, Jingmei Xu, Kang Li, Ke Li, Yuwei Xia, Yang Jing, Jiafei Chen, Jing Li, Jing Yang, Mingshan Du, Wenjing Hou, Yuan Ou, Lian Li, Wei Chen   +13 more
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Entropy Production and the Pressure-Volume Curve of the Lung [PDF]

, 2015
We investigate analytically the production of entropy during a breathing cycle in healthy and diseased lungs. First, we calculate entropy production in healthy lungs by applying the laws of thermodynamics to the well-known transpulmonary pressure-volume ($P-V$) curves of the lung under the assumption that lung tissue behaves as an entropy spring-like ...
arxiv   +1 more source

Elastocapillary network model of inhalation [PDF]

Physical Review Research, 2, 043382 (2020), 2020
The seemingly simple process of inhalation relies on a complex interplay between muscular contraction in the thorax, elasto-capillary interactions in individual lung branches, propagation of air between different connected branches, and overall air flow into the lungs.
arxiv   +1 more source

Factors associated with invasive lung aspergillosis and the significance of positive aspergillus culture after liver transplantation [PDF]

, 1992
From January 1981 to December 1990, 2180 patients underwent orthotopic liver transplantation at the University of Pittsburgh. Thirty-two patients (1.5%) were identified with invasive aspergillosis (29 lung, 2 intraabdominal, 1 meningitis). Of 29 patients
Fung, J, Irish, W, Kusne, S, Martin, M, Mañez, R, Simmons, RL, Starzl, TE, Torre-Cisneros, J   +7 more
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Mycotic Infections Acquired outside Areas of Known Endemicity, United States

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2015
In the United States, endemic mycoses—blastomycosis, coccidioidomycosis, and histoplasmosis—pose considerable clinical and public health challenges. Although the causative fungi typically exist within broadly defined geographic areas or ecologic niches ...
Kaitlin Benedict, George R. Thompson, Stan Deresinski, Tom M. Chiller   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source