Opportunistic bacterial, viral and fungal infections of the lung

RJ José, JN Periselneris, JS Brown - Medicine, 2020 - Elsevier
pathogens. This review provides a concise overview of the most common opportunistic lung
infections. … and range of pathogens commonly associated with infections in patients with this …

Pathogenesis of respiratory viral and fungal coinfections

F Salazar, E Bignell, GD Brown, PC Cook… - Clinical Microbiology …, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
… can cause severe fungal infections in the lungs that can lead … Invasive fungal infections
in the lungs, including invasive … tract infections are highly susceptible to developing a fungal

Immunity to fungi in the lung

LJ Heung, DL Wiesner, K Wang, A Rivera… - Seminars in immunology, 2023 - Elsevier
… in maintaining sterilizing anti-fungal immunity in the lung and in the pathogenesis of … can
lead to substantial susceptibility to lung fungal infections by dimorphic fungi and, more rarely, by …

Opportunistic pathogens in cystic fibrosis: epidemiology and pathogenesis of lung infection

AC Blanchard, VJ Waters - Journal of the Pediatric Infectious …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
… can affect the bloodstream, the lung, the renal system, or any … most common pathogenic
bacteria causing CF lung infections. … fungal infection. Pediatr Pulmonol 2022; 57:152–61. 157. …

Metagenomic next-generation sequencing for pulmonary fungal infection diagnosis: lung biopsy versus bronchoalveolar lavage fluid

L Yang, J Song, Y Wang, J Feng - Infection and Drug Resistance, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
fungal infection to identify pathogens. We compared the mNGS results from … fungal infection,
mNGS detected fungi in the lung biopsy and/or BALF of 55 patients. The sensitivity of lung

Prevalence of fungal and bacterial co-infection in pulmonary fungal infections: a metagenomic next generation sequencing-based study

Z Zhao, J Song, C Yang, L Yang, J Chen… - … cellular and infection …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
… identify pathogens from lung biopsy samples of patients with fungal infections, or bacterial
and fungal co-infections, … of the species found to better understand and treat these infections. …

A host defense peptide mimetic, brilacidin, potentiates caspofungin antifungal activity against human pathogenic fungi

TF Dos Reis, PA De Castro, RW Bastos… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Fungal infections cause more than 1.5 million deaths a year. Due to emerging antifungal
drug … of the fungal burden in the infected lungs was determined 72 h post-infection. The total …

The pathobiology of human fungal infections

GD Brown, ER Ballou, S Bates, EM Bignell… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
… in our knowledge and understanding of the pathogenesis of fungal infections. New discoveries
have … The balance between yeast and titan cells in the lung is key to virulence 31 and is …

The epithelial cell types and their multi-phased defenses against fungi and other pathogens

K Roe - Clinica Chimica Acta, 2024 - Elsevier
… , differ in their cellular immune interactions with potential pathogens.[1] Luminal antibody …
to the lungs, which exhibit far more interactions between the pathogens and the lung's most …

Immune responses to human fungal pathogens and therapeutic prospects

MS Lionakis, RA Drummond, TM Hohl - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2023 - nature.com
… predispose to fungal infection (Table 2 and Supplementary Table 2) and from fungal infection-…
turn control type III interferon production within the fungus-infected lung. Type I and type III …