[HTML][HTML] Immunity to Cryptococcus neoformans and C. gattii during cryptococcosis

JF Gibson, SA Johnston - Fungal Genetics and Biology, 2015 - Elsevier
The vast majority of infection with cryptococcal species occurs with Cryptococcus
neoformans in the severely immunocompromised. A significant exception to this is the …

Cryptococcal interactions with the host immune system

K Voelz, RC May - Eukaryotic cell, 2010 - Am Soc Microbiol
Opportunistic pathogens have become of increasing medical importance over the last
decade due to the AIDS pandemic. Not only is cryptococcosis the fourth-most-common fatal …

[HTML][HTML] Variability in innate host immune responses to cryptococcosis

M Garelnabi, RC May - Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2018 - SciELO Brasil
Cryptococcosis is an invasive fungal disease caused by Cryptococcus neoformans and the
closely related species C. gattii. The severe form of the disease, cryptococcal meningitis …

[HTML][HTML] Resistance and tolerance to cryptococcal infection: an intricate balance that controls the development of disease

M Shourian, ST Qureshi - Frontiers in Immunology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Cryptococcus neoformans is a ubiquitous environmental yeast and a leading cause of
invasive fungal infection in humans. The most recent estimate of global disease burden …

Host defenses against cryptococcosis

MS Price, JR Perfect - Immunological investigations, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
The interaction of pathogenic Cryptococcus species with their various hosts is somewhat
unique compared to other fungal pathogens such as Aspergillus fumigatus and Candida …

New weapons in the Cryptococcus infection toolkit

LM Taylor-Smith, RC May - Current opinion in microbiology, 2016 - Elsevier
Highlights•Cryptococcus neoformans is a leading cause of mortality in immunocompromised
patients.•The Cryptococcus: phagocyte interaction profoundly impacts the outcome of …

[HTML][HTML] Adaptive immunology of Cryptococcus neoformans infections—an update

J Chen, J Shao, M Dai, W Fang, Y Yang - Frontiers in immunology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The fungal genus Cryptococcus comprises a group of pathogens with considerable
phenotypic and genotypic diversity that can lead to cryptococcosis in both healthy and …

Virulence in Cryptococcus species

H Ma, RC May - Advances in applied microbiology, 2009 - Elsevier
Cryptococcus neoformans and Cryptococcus gattii are the cause of life-threatening
meningoencephalitis in immunocompromised and immunocompetent individuals …

Host Immunity to Cryptococcus Neoformans

S Rohatgi, L Pirofski - Future microbiology, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Cryptococcosis is caused by the fungal genus Cryptococcus. Cryptococcosis, predominantly
meningoencephalitis, emerged with the HIV pandemic, primarily afflicting HIV-infected …

[HTML][HTML] Cryptococcus gattii Induces a Cytokine Pattern That Is Distinct from Other Cryptococcal Species

T Schoffelen, MT Illnait-Zaragozi, LAB Joosten… - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Understanding more about the host's immune response to different Cryptococcus spp. will
provide additional insight into the pathogenesis of cryptocococcis. We hypothesized that the …