Elizabeth R Ballou
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Brown J, Ballou E
Curr Opin Microbiol
. 2024 Sep;
82:102539.
PMID: 39260180
Improved understanding of the human fungal pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans, classically described as a basidiomycete budding yeast, has revealed new infection-relevant single cell morphologies in vivo and in vitro. Here, we...
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Hudson A, Corzo-Leon D, Kalinina I, Wilson D, Thornton C, Warris A, et al.
J Infect Dis
. 2024 Aug;
231(1):e244-e253.
PMID: 39126323
Background: Mucormycosis is an aggressive invasive fungal infection caused by molds in the order Mucorales. Early diagnosis is key to improving patient prognosis, yet it relies on insensitive culture or...
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Brown G, Ballou E, Bates S, Bignell E, Borman A, Brand A, et al.
Nat Rev Microbiol
. 2024 Jun;
22(11):687-704.
PMID: 38918447
Human fungal infections are a historically neglected area of disease research, yet they cause more than 1.5 million deaths every year. Our understanding of the pathophysiology of these infections has...
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Francis V, Liddle C, Camacho E, Kulkarni M, Junior S, Harvey J, et al.
mBio
. 2024 Mar;
15(4):e0307823.
PMID: 38511961
causes lethal meningitis and accounts for approximately 10%-15% of AIDS-associated deaths worldwide. There are major gaps in our understanding of how this fungus invades the mammalian brain. To investigate the...
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Francis V, Liddle C, Camacho E, Kulkarni M, Junior S, Harvey J, et al.
bioRxiv
. 2023 Nov;
PMID: 38014111
The fungus causes lethal meningitis in humans with weakened immune systems and is estimated to account for 10-15% of AIDS-associated deaths worldwide. There are major gaps in our understanding of...
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Mohamed S, Shun Fu M, Hain S, Alselami A, Vanhoffelen E, Li Y, et al.
Nat Commun
. 2023 Nov;
14(1):7202.
PMID: 37938547
Microglia provide protection against a range of brain infections including bacteria, viruses and parasites, but how these glial cells respond to fungal brain infections is poorly understood. We investigated the...
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Njovu I, Nalumaga P, Ampaire L, Nuwagira E, Mwesigye J, Musinguzi B, et al.
JMIR Res Protoc
. 2023 Aug;
12:e48014.
PMID: 37581914
Background: Fungal-bacterial cocolonization and coinfections pose an emerging challenge among patients suspected of having pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB); however, the underlying pathogenic mechanisms and microbiome interactions are poorly understood. Understanding how...
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Hughes E, Tuck L, He Z, Ballou E, Wallace E
bioRxiv
. 2023 Jul;
PMID: 37398450
is a fungal pathogen whose virulence relies on proliferation in and dissemination to host sites, and on synthesis of a defensive yet metabolically costly polysaccharide capsule. Regulatory pathways required for...
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Corzo-Leon D, Uehling J, Ballou E
Trends Microbiol
. 2023 Apr;
31(9):985-987.
PMID: 37062623
No abstract available.
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Saidykhan L, Correia J, Romanyuk A, Peacock A, Desanti G, Taylor-Smith L, et al.
PLoS Pathog
. 2022 Nov;
18(11):e1011001.
PMID: 36445880
[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1010321.].