Immune evasion by Cryptococcus gattii in vaccinated mice coinfected with C. neoformans

MM Hester, D Carlson, JK Lodge, SM Levitz… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Cryptococcus neoformans and C. gattii, the etiologic agents of cryptococcosis, cause over
100,000 deaths worldwide every year, yet no cryptococcal vaccine has progressed to …

Induction of Broad-Spectrum Protective Immunity against Disparate Cryptococcus Serotypes

MCC Van Dyke, AK Chaturvedi, SE Hardison… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Cryptococcosis is a fungal disease caused by multiple Cryptococcus serotypes; particularly
C. neoformans (serotypes A and D) and C. gattii (serotypes B and C). To date, there is no …

Insights into the Mechanisms of Protective Immunity against Cryptococcus neoformans Infection Using a Mouse Model of Pulmonary Cryptococcosis

KL Wozniak, S Ravi, S Macias, ML Young… - PloS one, 2009 - journals.plos.org
Cryptococcus neoformans is an opportunistic fungal pathogen that causes life-threatening
pneumonia and meningoencephalitis in immune compromised individuals. Previous studies …

Three Models of Vaccination Strategies Against Cryptococcosis in Immunocompromised Hosts Using Heat-Killed Cryptococcus neoformans Δsgl1

TG Normile, M Del Poeta - Frontiers in Immunology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Vaccines are one of the greatest medical accomplishments to date, yet no fungal vaccines
are currently available in humans mainly because opportunistic mycoses generally occur …

Induction of protective immunity to cryptococcal infection in mice by a heat-killed, chitosan-deficient strain of Cryptococcus neoformans

R Upadhya, WC Lam, B Maybruck, CA Specht… - MBio, 2016 - Am Soc Microbiol
Cryptococcus neoformans is a major opportunistic fungal pathogen that causes fatal
meningoencephalitis in immunocompromised individuals and is responsible for a large …

TNF-α-Producing Cryptococcus neoformans Exerts Protective Effects on Host Defenses in Murine Pulmonary Cryptococcosis

Z Fa, J Xu, J Yi, J Sang, W Pan, Q Xie, R Yang… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-α) plays a critical role in the control of cryptococcal
infection, and its insufficiency promotes cryptococcal persistence. To explore the therapeutic …

Evaluation of host immune responses to pulmonary cryptococcosis using a temperature-sensitive C. neoformans calcineurin A mutant strain

FL Wormley Jr, GM Cox, JR Perfect - Microbial pathogenesis, 2005 - Elsevier
Cryptococcus neoformans is an opportunistic fungal pathogen that threatens individuals with
impaired cell-mediated immunity (CMI). Presently, there are no standardized vaccines …

[HTML][HTML] Protective immunity against Cryptococcus neoformans infection

J Schop - McGill Journal of Medicine: MJM, 2007 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Cryptococcus neoformans, the etiological agent of cryptococcosis, is an occasional
opportunistic fungal pathogen of immune competent individuals. However, it is a relatively …

Vaccine-Mediated Immune Responses to Experimental Pulmonary Cryptococcus gattii Infection in Mice

AK Chaturvedi, RS Hameed, KL Wozniak, CR Hole… - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Cryptococcus gattii is a fungal pathogen that can cause life-threatening respiratory and
disseminated infections in immune-competent and immune-suppressed individuals …

Vaccine and immunotherapeutic approaches for the prevention of cryptococcosis: lessons learned from animal models

CR Hole, FL Wormley Jr - Frontiers in microbiology, 2012 - frontiersin.org
Cryptococcus neoformans and C. gattii, the predominant etiological agents of
cryptococcosis, can cause life-threatening infections of the central nervous system in …