Antifungal Immune Responses against Invasive Mycoses
A special issue of Journal of Fungi (ISSN 2309-608X). This special issue belongs to the section "Fungal Pathogenesis and Disease Control".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2022) | Viewed by 9349
Special Issue Editors
Interests: microbial pathogenesis; Histoplasma; Candida; Cryptococcus; Paracoccidioides; extracellular fungal vesicles; novel therapeutics
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Interests: mycology; extracellular vesicles; host–patogen interaction; immunology
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Less than 1% of fungal species are able to cause disease in humans and other endothermic animals, as opposed to the hundreds of thousands of characterized and millions of expected species in this Kingdom. While invasive fungi have evolved to evade host defense mechanisms, host immunity has developed to protect the host against the arsenal of fungal virulence factors and disease-promoting mechanisms. This Special Issue in the Journal of Fungi focuses on the strategies employed by host immune systems to deal with invasive fungal organisms. Barriers that isolate the host from the environment, as well as cellular and humoral components of the host immune response to encountering fungi or their reactions after the onset of disease, and the challenges for the development of an antifungal vaccine, among other themes, will be addressed in this Special Issue.
Prof. Dr. Joshua D Nosanchuk
Prof. Dr. Daniel Zamith Miranda
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- microbial pathogenesis
- host–pathogen interactions
- immune response
- invasive mycoses
- fungi
- yeast
- hyphae
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