Lung Diseases, Fungal

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A 37-Year-Old Man With Pleuritic Chest Pain. 
  • A 73-year-old woman with a cough. 
  • A patient with newly diagnosed melanoma and pulmonary nodules. 
  • Aerosolized antifungal prophylaxis: the winds of change? 
  • Air crescent sign of invasive aspergillosis. 
  • An official American Thoracic Society statement: Treatment of fungal infections in adult pulmonary and critical care patients. 
  • Antifungal pharmacotherapy for invasive mould infections. 
  • Aspergillus terreus as a cause of invasive pulmonary aspergillosis. 
  • Burkholderia glumae infection in an infant with chronic granulomatous disease. 
  • CT patterns of fungal pulmonary infections of the lung: comparison of standard-dose and simulated low-dose CT. 
  • Candida pneumonia in a term infant after prolonged use of inhaled corticosteroids for bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD). 
  • Complications (excluding hyperinflation) involving the native lung after single-lung transplantation: incidence, radiologic features, and clinical importance. 
  • Critical care perspective on immunotherapy in lung transplantation. 
  • Cryptococcal cell morphology affects host cell interactions and pathogenicity. 
  • Cryptococcus gattii genotype VGI infection in New England. 
  • Cutaneous cryptococcosis in solid organ transplant recipients. 
  • Cystic fibrosis: usefulness of thoracic CT in the examination of patients before lung transplantation. 
  • Diagnosis and Management of Systemic Endemic Mycoses Causing Pulmonary Disease. 
  • Evaluation of host immune responses to pulmonary cryptococcosis using a temperature-sensitive C. neoformans calcineurin A mutant strain. 
  • Factors associated with invasive lung aspergillosis and the significance of positive Aspergillus culture after liver transplantation. 
  • Fungal diagnostics in pneumonia. 
  • Fungal infection in chronic granulomatous disease. The importance of the phagocyte in defense against fungi. 
  • Imaging manifestations of blastomycosis: a pulmonary infection with potential dissemination. 
  • Immunosuppression related to collagen-vascular disease or its treatment. 
  • Impact of air filtration on nosocomial Aspergillus infections. Unique risk of bone marrow transplant recipients. 
  • Impact of mating type, serotype, and ploidy on the virulence of Cryptococcus neoformans. 
  • Life-threatening asymptomatic incidentaloma: a case report of idiopathic CD4 lymphocytopenia and opportunistic infections. 
  • Manifestations of pulmonary cryptococcosis in patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. 
  • Misidentification of Neosartorya pseudofischeri as Aspergillus fumigatus in a lung transplant patient. 
  • Multiple pulmonary nodules in AIDS: usefulness of CT in distinguishing among potential causes. 
  • Mycotoxins and interstitial lung disease. 
  • Necrotizing pulmonary aspergillosis with oxalosis. 
  • New developments in the diagnosis and treatment of infections in lung transplant recipients. 
  • Non-Aspergillus fungal pneumonia in transplant recipients. 
  • Opportunistic fungal pneumonia. 
  • Outcome of lung transplantation in patients with mycetomas. 
  • Percutaneous management of intrapulmonary air and fluid collections. 
  • Plasminogen alleles influence susceptibility to invasive aspergillosis. 
  • Pneumonia due to Fonsecaea pedrosoi and cerebral abscesses due to Emericella nidulans in a bone marrow transplant recipient. 
  • Pulmonary cryptococcosis in solid organ transplant recipients: clinical relevance of serum cryptococcal antigen. 
  • Pulmonary cryptococcosis. 
  • Pulmonary mucormycosis: radiologic findings in 32 cases. 
  • Pulmonary oxalate deposition associated with Aspergillus niger infection. An oxidant hypothesis of toxicity. 
  • Rare and emerging fungal pulmonary infections. 
  • Recent advances in the epidemiology, prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of fungal pneumonia. 
  • Risk factors and mortality in invasive Rasamsonia spp. infection: Analysis of cases in the FungiScope® registry and from the literature. 
  • Risk factors for primary pulmonary coccidioidomycosis hospitalizations among United States Navy and Marine Corps personnel, 1981-1994. 
  • Role of PLB1 in pulmonary inflammation and cryptococcal eicosanoid production. 
  • The clinical epidemiology of pulmonary cryptococcosis in non-AIDS patients at a tertiary care medical center. 
  • The incidence and management of pulmonary mycosis in renal allograft patients. 
  • Thoracic cryptococcosis: immunologic competence and radiologic appearance. 
  • Thoracic mycoses from endemic fungi: radiologic-pathologic correlation. 
  • Thoracic mycoses from opportunistic fungi: radiologic-pathologic correlation. 
  • Titan cells formation in Cryptococcus neoformans is finely tuned by environmental conditions and modulated by positive and negative genetic regulators. 
  • Treatment of aspergillosis: clinical practice guidelines of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. 
  • Value of an inhalational model of invasive aspergillosis. 
  • Virulence factors identified by Cryptococcus neoformans mutant screen differentially modulate lung immune responses and brain dissemination. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Patz Jr., Edward F., James and Alice Chen Distinguished Professor of Radiology, Pathology
  • Steinbach, William J., Samuel L. Katz Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics, Duke Innovation & Entrepreneurship
  • Sullivan, Daniel Carl, Professor Emeritus of Radiology, Radiology
  • Tsalik, Ephraim, Associate Professor of Medicine, Molecular Genetics and Microbiology