Cryptococcosis

"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]

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Cryptococcosis
Meningitis, Cryptococcal

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Bar chart showing 52 publications over 26 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	1	1	2
2011	2	1	3
2013	1	0	1
2014	2	1	3
2015	3	0	3
2016	1	0	1
2017	1	0	1
2018	1	1	2
2019	2	1	3
2020	2	0	2
2021	1	0	1
2022	1	0	1
2023	1	0	1
2024	4	0	4
2025	2	0	2

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Oliveira LVN, Hargarten JC, Wang R, Carlson D, Park YD, Specht CA, Williamson PR, Levitz SM. Peripheral blood CD4+ and CD8+ T cell responses to Cryptococcus candidate vaccine antigens in human subjects with and without cryptococcosis. J Infect. 2025 Jul; 91(1):106521.

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Barclay-Korboi YM, Adeel A, Ajami I, Dickson FH, Wachekwa I, Vaye NAF, Levitz SM. Use of sequential lateral flow assays to diagnose cryptococcal infection among people living with HIV in Monrovia, Liberia. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2025 Apr; 19(4):e0013008.

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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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Saucedo-Crespo H, Sakpal SV, Auvenshine C, Santella RN, Nazir J, Prouse B, Mehta T, Steers J. Early Cardiopulmonary Cryptococcus neoformans Infection After Liver Transplant: A Case Report. Transplant Proc. 2020 Nov; 52(9):2790-2794.

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