Immunity to fungi in the lung

LJ Heung, DL Wiesner, K Wang, A Rivera… - Seminars in immunology, 2023 - Elsevier
The respiratory tree maintains sterilizing immunity against human fungal pathogens.
Humans inhale ubiquitous filamentous molds and geographically restricted dimorphic fungal …

Two sides of the same coin: Protective versus pathogenic CD4+ resident memory T cells

AE Oja, RAW van Lier, P Hombrink - Science immunology, 2022 - science.org
The ability of the adaptive immune system to form memory is key to providing protection
against secondary infections. Resident memory T cells (TRM) are specialized T cell …

T cell responses to control fungal infection in an immunological memory lens

J Sharma, S Mudalagiriyappa… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
In recent years, fungal vaccine research emanated significant findings in the field of
antifungal T-cell immunity. The generation of effector T cells is essential to combat many …

Vaccines to prevent coccidioidomycosis: a gene-deletion mutant of Coccidioides posadasii as a viable candidate for human trials

JN Galgiani, LF Shubitz, MJ Orbach, MA Mandel… - Journal of Fungi, 2022 - mdpi.com
Coccidioidomycosis is an endemic fungal infection that is reported in up to 20,000 persons
per year and has an economic impact close to $1.5 billion. Natural infection virtually always …

Vaccination with O-linked Mannans Protects against Systemic Candidiasis through Innate Lymphocyte Populations

CL Taira, L dos Santos Dias… - The Journal of …, 2024 - journals.aai.org
Candida spp. are the fourth leading cause of bloodstream infections in hospitalized patients
and the most common cause of invasive fungal infection. No vaccine against Candida spp …

Immunity to fungi and vaccine considerations

AJ Whitehead, T Woodring, BS Klein - Cell Host & Microbe, 2024 - cell.com
Fungal disease poses a growing threat to public health that our current antifungal therapies
are not well equipped to meet. As the population of immunocompromised hosts expands …

Efficient enzyme-free method to assess the development and maturation of the innate and adaptive immune systems in the mouse colon

N Lassoued, A Yero, MA Jenabian, R Soret, N Pilon - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Researchers who aim to globally analyze the gastrointestinal immune system via flow
cytometry have many protocol options to choose from, with specifics generally tied to gut …

Tissue-resident memory T cells in antifungal immunity

S LeibundGut-Landmann - Frontiers in immunology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Fungi are an integral part of the mammalian microbiota colonizing most if not all mucosal
surfaces and the skin. Maintaining stable colonization on these surfaces is critical for …

Combination adjuvants enhance recombinant protein vaccine protection against fungal infection

M Wüthrich, HE Dobson, C Ledesma Taira, UJ Okaa… - Mbio, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
The development of effective vaccines against fungal infections requires the induction of
protective, pathogen-specific cell-mediated immune responses. Here, we asked whether …

Distinctive populations of CD4+ T cells associated with vaccine efficacy

T Woodring, CN Dewey, LDS Dias, X He, HE Dobson… - Iscience, 2022 - cell.com
Memory T cells underpin vaccine-induced immunity but are not yet fully understood. To
distinguish features of memory cells that confer protective immunity, we used single cell …