Breaking the mould – novel diagnostic and therapeutic strategies for invasive pulmonary aspergillosis in the immune deficient patient

Utility of (1–3)-β-d-Glucan Testing for Diagnostics and Monitoring Response to Treatment During the Multistate Outbreak of Fungal Meningitis and Other Infections

(2013) Anastasia P. Litvintseva et al.   CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Comparison of a novel Aspergillus lateral-flow device and the Platelia® galactomannan assay for the diagnosis of invasive aspergillosis following haematopoietic stem cell transplantation

(2013) J. Held et al.   INFECTION

Directed therapy for fungal infections: focus on aspergillosis

(2013) R. A. Barnes   JOURNAL OF ANTIMICROBIAL CHEMOTHERAPY

Evaluation of Real-Time PCR, Galactomannan Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA), and a Novel Lateral-Flow Device for Diagnosis of Invasive Aspergillosis

(2013) P. L. White et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Performance of Serum Biomarkers for the Early Detection of Invasive Aspergillosis in Febrile, Neutropenic Patients: A Multi-State Model

(2013) Michaël Schwarzinger et al.   PLoS One

Improving Precision of Proximity Ligation Assay by Amplified Single Molecule Detection

(2013) Rongqin Ke et al.   PLoS One

Are We There Yet? Recent Progress in the Molecular Diagnosis and Novel Antifungal Targeting of Aspergillus fumigatus and Invasive Aspergillosis

(2013) William J. Steinbach   PLoS Pathogens

Aspergillus fumigatus—What Makes the Species a Ubiquitous Human Fungal Pathogen?

(2013) Kyung J. Kwon-Chung et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Novel Strategies to Enhance Vaccine Immunity against Coccidioidomycosis

(2013) Garry T. Cole et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Aspergillus-PCR in bronchoalveolar lavage for detection of invasive pulmonary aspergillosis in immunocompromised patients

(2012) Michael Buess et al.   BMC INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Recent progress in vaccines against fungal diseases

(2012) Antonio Cassone et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY

Bis(methyl)gliotoxin proves to be a more stable and reliable marker for invasive aspergillosis than gliotoxin and suitable for use in diagnosis

(2012) Maria P. Domingo et al.   DIAGNOSTIC MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASE

Preclinical evaluation of two 68Ga-siderophores as potential radiopharmaceuticals for Aspergillus fumigatus infection imaging

(2012) Milos Petrik et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NUCLEAR MEDICINE AND MOLECULAR IMAGING

Therapy with antifungals decreases the diagnostic performance of PCR for diagnosing invasive aspergillosis in bronchoalveolar lavage samples of patients with haematological malignancies

(2012) M. Reinwald et al.   JOURNAL OF ANTIMICROBIAL CHEMOTHERAPY

Interlaboratory and Interstudy Reproducibility of a Novel Lateral-Flow Device and Influence of Antifungal Therapy on Detection of Invasive Pulmonary Aspergillosis

(2012) N. P. Wiederhold et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Bronchoalveolar lavage lateral-flow device test for invasive pulmonary aspergillosis diagnosis in haematological malignancy and solid organ transplant patients

(2012) Martin Hoenigl et al.   JOURNAL OF INFECTION

Fungal cell wall vaccines: an update

(2012) J. E. Edwards   JOURNAL OF MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Detection of Aspergillus fumigatus pulmonary fungal infections in mice with 99mTc-labeled MORF oligomers targeting ribosomal RNA

(2012) Yuzhen Wang et al.   NUCLEAR MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY

A MIQE-Compliant Real-Time PCR Assay for Aspergillus Detection

(2012) Gemma L. Johnson et al.   PLoS One

Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Detecting Galactomannan in Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid for Diagnosing Invasive Aspergillosis

(2012) Mingxiang Zou et al.   PLoS One

Hidden Killers: Human Fungal Infections

(2012) G. D. Brown et al.   Science Translational Medicine

Applications for Preclinical PET/MRI

(2012) Martin S. Judenhofer et al.   SEMINARS IN NUCLEAR MEDICINE

From memory to antifungal vaccine design

(2012) Rossana G. Iannitti et al.   TRENDS IN IMMUNOLOGY

Interrogation of Related Clinical Pan-Azole-Resistant Aspergillus fumigatus Strains: G138C, Y431C, and G434C Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms incyp51A, Upregulation ofcyp51A, and Integration and Activation of TransposonAtf1in thecyp51APromoter

(2011) Ahmed M. Albarrag et al.   ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY

Evaluation of Aspergillus PCR Protocols for Testing Serum Specimens

(2011) P. Lewis White et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Antifungal treatment affects the laboratory diagnosis of invasive aspergillosis

(2011) Elaine McCulloch et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL PATHOLOGY

Toward Developing a Universal Treatment for Fungal Disease Using Radioimmunotherapy Targeting Common Fungal Antigens

(2011) R. A. Bryan et al.   MYCOPATHOLOGIA

A prospective comparison of galactomannan in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid for the diagnosis of pulmonary invasive aspergillosis in medical patients under intensive care: comparison with the diagnostic performance of galactomannan and of (1→ 3) – β – d-glucan chromogenic assay in serum samples

(2010) J. Acosta et al.   CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTION

Proximity ligation assays: a recent addition to the proteomics toolbox

(2010) Irene Weibrecht et al.   Expert Review of Proteomics

The host-infecting fungal transcriptome

(2010) Timothy Cairns et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY LETTERS

The (1,3) -D-Glucan Test as an Aid to Early Diagnosis of Invasive Fungal Infections following Lung Transplantation

(2010) B. D. Alexander et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Aspergillus galactomannan antigen assay in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid for diagnosis of invasive pulmonary aspergillosis

(2010) Seong Yeon Park et al.   JOURNAL OF INFECTION

Radioimmunotherapy Is More Effective than Antifungal Treatment in Experimental Cryptococcal Infection

(2010) Ruth A. Bryan et al.   JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Radioimmunotherapy Is Effective against High-Inoculum Cryptococcus neoformans Infection in Mice and Does Not Select for Radiation-Resistant Cryptococcal Cells

(2009) R. A. Bryan et al.   ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY

Comparison of Lateral Flow Technology and Galactomannan and (1->3)- -D-Glucan Assays for Detection of Invasive Pulmonary Aspergillosis

(2009) N. P. Wiederhold et al.   Clinical and Vaccine Immunology

Pathogenesis of Aspergillus fumigatus in Invasive Aspergillosis

(2009) T. R. T. Dagenais et al.   CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY REVIEWS

Aspergillosis

(2009) Brahm H. Segal   NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE

Development of an Immunochromatographic Lateral-Flow Device for Rapid Serodiagnosis of Invasive Aspergillosis

(2008) C. R. Thornton   Clinical and Vaccine Immunology

Revised Definitions of Invasive Fungal Disease from the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer/Invasive Fungal Infections Cooperative Group and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Mycoses Study Group (EORTC/MSG) Consensus Group

(2008) Ben De Pauw et al.   CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Gliotoxin Production inAspergillus fumigatusContributes to Host‐Specific Differences in Virulence

(2008) Sara Spikes et al.   JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES

SreA-mediated iron regulation in Aspergillus fumigatus

(2008) Markus Schrettl et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Sub-Telomere Directed Gene Expression during Initiation of Invasive Aspergillosis

(2008) Andrew McDonagh et al.   PLoS Pathogens