Paving the way for predictive diagnostics and personalized treatment of invasive aspergillosis

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 6, Issue MAY, 2015, Pages

  Oliveira Coelho, Ana ^a,b   Rodrigues, Fernando ^a,b   Campos, António ^c   Lacerda, João F ^d,e   Carvalho, Agostinho ^a,b   Cunha, Cristina ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

^c PORTUGUESE ONCOLOGY INSTITUTE   (Portugal)

^d INSTITUTO DE MEDICINA MOLECULAR   (Portugal)

^e HOSPITAL DE SANTA MARIA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Antifungal immunity; Invasive aspergillosis; Personalized medicine; Single nucleotide polymorphism; Stem cell transplantation

Indexed keywords

BETA GLUCAN; CALCINEURIN; CD11B ANTIGEN; CORTICOSTEROID; CRYOPYRIN; CYCLOSPORIN A; DECTIN 1; DECTIN 2; FC RECEPTOR; GALACTOMANNAN; INTERCELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE 3; INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 1; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 37; MANNAN; MANNOSE RECEPTOR; NUCLEIC ACID; NUCLEOTIDE BINDING OLIGOMERIZATION DOMAIN LIKE RECEPTOR; PATTERN RECOGNITION RECEPTOR; PENTRAXIN 3; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 1; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 2; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 3; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 4; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 6; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 9; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG;

ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CHRONIC GRANULOMATOUS DISEASE; FUNGUS IMMUNITY; GENOMICS; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; HYPER IGE SYNDROME; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFECTION CONTROL; INNATE IMMUNITY; INVASIVE ASPERGILLOSIS; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; SHORT SURVEY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VACCINATION;

FUNGI;

EID: 84931273061     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.00411     Document Type: Short Survey

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