[HTML][HTML] Cryptococcus neoformans Infection in the Central Nervous System: The Battle between Host and Pathogen

Y Chen, ZW Shi, AB Strickland, M Shi - Journal of Fungi, 2022 - mdpi.com
Cryptococcus neoformans (C. neoformans) is a pathogenic fungus with a global distribution.
Humans become infected by inhaling the fungus from the environment, and the fungus …

miEAA 2023: updates, new functional microRNA sets and improved enrichment visualizations

E Aparicio-Puerta, P Hirsch, GP Schmartz… - Nucleic acids …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small non-coding RNAs that play a critical role in regulating
diverse biological processes. Extracting functional insights from a list of miRNAs is …

“We've got to get out”—Strategies of human pathogenic fungi to escape from phagocytes

J Sonnberger, L Kasper, T Lange… - Molecular …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Human fungal pathogens are a deadly and underappreciated risk to global health that most
severely affect immunocompromised individuals. A virulence attribute shared by some of the …

[HTML][HTML] COVID-19 associated with cryptococcosis: a new challenge during the pandemic

KS Chan, CC Lai, WL Yu, CM Chao - Journal of Fungi, 2022 - mdpi.com
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome
coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a great threat to global health. In addition to SARS-CoV-2 …

Immunization with a heat-killed prm1 deletion strain protects the host from Cryptococcus neoformans infection

C Li, Y Meng, H Li, W Du, X Gao, C Suo… - Emerging Microbes & …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Systemic infection with Cryptococcus neoformans, a dangerous and contagious pathogen
found throughout the world, frequently results in lethal cryptococcal pneumonia and …

The pathways and the mechanisms by which Cryptococcus enters the brain

Y Zhou, Y Huang, C Yang, X Zang, H Deng, J Liu… - Mycology, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Generally, Cryptococcus initially infects the respiratory tract, but can spread, eventually
crossing the blood-brain barrier (BBB) and causing meningitis or meningoencephalitis …