Fungal diseases represent a major burden to health care globally. As with other pathogenic
microbes, there is a limited number of agents suitable for use in treating fungal diseases …

Cryptococcus neoformans is an opportunistic fungal pathogen, which causes life‐
threatening meningoencephalitis in immunocompromised individuals and is responsible for …

Fungal infections are a global concern and the evolution of intrinsic resistance to current
antifungals presents an alarming problem. For Cryptococcus neoformans, a human fungal …

Hybridization is a potent mechanism for generating unique strains with broad host ranges
and increased virulence in fungal pathogens. In the opportunistic basidiomycete pathogen …

Antifungal drug discovery is starting to benefit from the enormous advances in the genomics
field, which have occurred in the past decade. As traditional drug screening on existing …

Proliferation and host evasion are critical processes to understand at a basic biological level
for improving infectious disease treatment options. The human fungal pathogen …

The human pathogenic fungus Cryptococcus neoformans is a global health concern.
Previous research in the field has focused on studies using reference strains to identify …

Cryptococcus neoformans is an opportunistic human fungal pathogen and serves as a
model organism for studies of eukaryotic microbiology and microbial pathogenesis. C …

There have been significant developments in fungal genomics over the past year. The
recently released genome sequences of Aspergillus fumigatus and Cryptococcus …

Cryptococcus neoformans is an opportunistic fungal pathogen with a defined sexual cycle
for which genetic and molecular techniques are well developed. The entire genome …