Cryptococcosis

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"Cryptococcosis" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Infection with a fungus of the species CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS.

Descriptor ID	D003453
MeSH Number(s)	C01.703.248
Concept/Terms	Cryptococcosis Cryptococcosis Cryptococcoses Cryptococcus neoformans Infection Cryptococcus neoformans Infections Infection, Cryptococcus neoformans Torulosis Toruloses

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Diseases [C]
Bacterial Infections and Mycoses [C01]
Mycoses [C01.703]
Cryptococcosis [C01.703.248]

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is related to "Cryptococcosis".

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Cryptococcosis
Meningitis, Cryptococcal

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Bar chart showing 47 publications over 25 distinct years, with a maximum of 4 publications in 2005 and 2024

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
1997	1	1	2
1998	1	0	1
2000	2	1	3
2001	0	2	2
2002	0	1	1
2004	2	0	2
2005	2	2	4
2006	2	0	2
2007	1	0	1
2008	1	1	2
2009	0	2	2
2010	0	1	1
2011	2	1	3
2013	1	0	1
2014	2	1	3
2015	2	0	2
2016	1	0	1
2017	1	0	1
2018	1	1	2
2019	2	1	3
2020	1	0	1
2021	1	0	1
2022	1	0	1
2023	1	0	1
2024	4	0	4

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Specht CA, Wang R, Oliveira LVN, Hester MM, Gomez C, Mou Z, Carlson D, Lee CK, Hole CR, Lam WC, Upadhya R, Lodge JK, Levitz SM. Immunological correlates of protection mediated by a whole organism, Cryptococcus neoformans, vaccine deficient in chitosan. mBio. 2024 Aug 14; 15(8):e0174624.

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Wang R, Oliveira LVN, Hester MM, Carlson D, Christensen D, Specht CA, Levitz SM. Protection against experimental cryptococcosis elicited by Cationic Adjuvant Formulation 01-adjuvanted subunit vaccines. PLoS Pathog. 2024 Jul; 20(7):e1012220.

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Hester MM, Carlson D, Lodge JK, Levitz SM, Specht CA. Immune evasion by Cryptococcus gattii in vaccinated mice coinfected with C. neoformans. Front Immunol. 2024; 15:1356651.

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Specht CA, Lam WC, Hester MM, Lourenco D, Levitz SM, Lodge JK, Upadhya R. Chitosan-Deficient Cryptococcus as Whole-Cell Vaccines. Methods Mol Biol. 2024; 2775:393-410.

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Sephton-Clark P, McConnell SA, Grossman N, Baker RP, Dragotakes Q, Fan Y, Fu MS, Gerbig G, Greengo S, Hardwick JM, Kulkarni M, Levitz SM, Nosanchuk JD, Shoham S, Smith DFQ, Stempinski P, Timp W, Wear MP, Cuomo CA, Casadevall A. Similar evolutionary trajectories in an environmental Cryptococcus neoformans isolate after human and murine infection. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2023 01 10; 120(2):e2217111120.

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Hester MM, Oliveira LVN, Wang R, Mou Z, Lourenco D, Ostroff GR, Specht CA, Levitz SM. Cross-reactivity between vaccine antigens from the chitin deacetylase protein family improves survival in a mouse model of cryptococcosis. Front Immunol. 2022; 13:1015586.

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Specht CA, Homan EJ, Lee CK, Mou Z, Gomez CL, Hester MM, Abraham A, Rus F, Ostroff GR, Levitz SM. Protection of Mice against Experimental Cryptococcosis by Synthesized Peptides Delivered in Glucan Particles. mBio. 2021 02 22; 13(1):e0336721.

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Choe YJ, Blatt DB, Yalcindag A, Geffert SF, Bobenchik AM, Michelow IC. Cryptococcus albidus Fungemia in an Immunosuppressed Child: Case Report and Systematic Literature Review. J Pediatric Infect Dis Soc. 2020 Feb 28; 9(1):100-105.

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Hester MM, Lee CK, Abraham A, Khoshkenar P, Ostroff GR, Levitz SM, Specht CA. Protection of mice against experimental cryptococcosis using glucan particle-based vaccines containing novel recombinant antigens. Vaccine. 2020 01 16; 38(3):620-626.

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Lam WC, Upadhya R, Specht CA, Ragsdale AE, Hole CR, Levitz SM, Lodge JK. Chitosan Biosynthesis and Virulence in the Human Fungal Pathogen Cryptococcus gattii. mSphere. 2019 10 09; 4(5).

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