With this high-quality library of kinase mutants, we performed in vitro phenotypic analyses under 30 distinct growth conditions covering five major phenotypic classes: growth, differentiation, stress ...

Bacterial and viral are the more prevalent and commonly discussed forms of meningitis, but one infectious disease expert at the University of Alabama at Birmingham says fungal meningitis stemming from ...

Cryptococcus neoformans is one of four fungi classified as 'critical priority' on the WHO's Fungal Pathogens Priority List, which was published in October 2022 following decades of research and calls ...

After entering the host, the leading cause of fungal meningitis, Cryptococcus neoformans, rapidly adapts by shrinking in size and acquiring other characteristics that allow it to better infect the ...

A ten-year effort by an international team has sequenced the entire genome and all the RNA products of the most important pathogenic lineage of Cryptococcus neoformans, a strain called H99.These ...

Human-to-human transmission of cryptococcosis is very rare. 1–3 An 80-year-old man (Patient A) was hospitalized because of pulmonary squamous-cell carcinoma. He received mechanical ventilation and was ...

Ultimately, the goal is to find ways to stop deadly disease caused by Cryptococcus neoformans from developing in humans and animals. But until that time, finding new and better ways to treat already ...

Cryptococcus neoformans is a fungal pathogen that infects people with weakened immune systems, particularly those with advanced HIV/AIDS. New research could mean a better understanding of this ...

Cryptococcus neoformans is one of four fungi classified as "critical priority" on the WHO's Fungal Pathogens Priority List, which was published in October 2022 following decades of research and calls ...