Opportunistic Infections

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A multicenter trial of oral zidovudine in children with advanced human immunodeficiency virus disease. The Protocol 043 Study Group. 
  • A pilot study comparing the neutropenic diet to a non-neutropenic diet in the allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation population. 
  • A single-center experience with ganciclovir-resistant cytomegalovirus in lung transplant recipients: treatment and outcome. 
  • A study comparing mycophenolate mofetil to azathioprine in simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplantation. 
  • Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). 
  • Alemtuzumab for the prevention and treatment of graft-versus-host disease. 
  • Allogeneic hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation for leukocyte adhesion deficiency. 
  • Allogeneic marrow transplantation for aplastic anaemia associated with dyskeratosis congenita. 
  • Allograft loss in renal transplant recipients with cryptococcus neoformans associated immune reconstitution syndrome. 
  • Antibiotic resistance in the patient with cancer: Escalating challenges and paths forward. 
  • Antifungal attributes of immunosuppressive agents: new paradigms in management and elucidating the pathophysiologic basis of opportunistic mycoses in organ transplant recipients. 
  • Antifungal management practices and evolution of infection in organ transplant recipients with cryptococcus neoformans infection. 
  • Aspergillus terreus as a cause of invasive pulmonary aspergillosis. 
  • Bilateral nodular pulmonary infiltrates in an immunocompromised host. 
  • Breakthrough invasive fungal infections: Who is at risk? 
  • Candidal oesophagitis in Cushing's syndrome. 
  • Chemotherapy-induced neutropenia: risks, consequences, and new directions for its management. 
  • Clinical and laboratory correlates of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia in children infected with HIV. 
  • Clinical problem-solving. Index of suspicion. 
  • Complex bacterial infections pre- and posttransplant. 
  • Confirmation of administrative claims-identified opportunistic infections and other serious potential adverse events associated with tumor necrosis factor alpha antagonists and disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs. 
  • Cryptococcal meningitis in patients with glioma: a report of two cases. 
  • Cryptococcal meningitis with normal cerebrospinal fluid. 
  • Cryptococcosis. 
  • Cryptococcus gattii Species Complex as an Opportunistic Pathogen: Underlying Medical Conditions Associated with the Infection. 
  • Cutaneous acquired toxoplasmosis in a child: a case report and review of the literature. 
  • Deferoxamine treatment as a risk factor for zygomycete infection. 
  • Delay of CMV infection in high-risk CMV mismatch lung transplant recipients due to prophylaxis with oral ganciclovir. 
  • Delayed myonecrosis in a leukemic patient with invasive group A streptococcal disease. 
  • Disseminated aspergillosis involving the brain: distribution and imaging characteristics. 
  • Disseminated histoplasmosis in systemic lupus erythematosus: case report and review of the literature. 
  • Ditiocarb sodium (diethyldithiocarbamate) therapy in patients with symptomatic HIV infection and AIDS. A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, multicenter study. 
  • Emerging Fungal Infections. 
  • Epidemiology, outcomes, and costs of invasive aspergillosis in immunocompromised children in the United States, 2000. 
  • Epstein-Barr virus-associated posttransplantation lymphoproliferative disorder after high-dose immunosuppressive therapy and autologous CD34-selected hematopoietic stem cell transplantation for severe autoimmune diseases. 
  • Evaluation of clinical outcomes of prophylactic versus preemptive cytomegalovirus strategy in liver transplant recipients. 
  • Extended valganciclovir prophylaxis to prevent cytomegalovirus after lung transplantation: a randomized, controlled trial. 
  • Fatal Scopulariopsis brevicaulis infection in a paediatric stem-cell transplant patient treated with voriconazole and caspofungin and a review of Scopulariopsis infections in immunocompromised patients. 
  • Fatal, disseminated Acremonium strictum infection in a neutropenic host. 
  • Febrile neutropenia and related complications in breast cancer patients receiving pegfilgrastim primary prophylaxis versus current practice neutropaenia management: results from an integrated analysis. 
  • Fungi that Infect Humans. 
  • HIV infection in children. 
  • Herpes virus infections occur frequently following treatment with fludarabine: results of a prospective natural history study. 
  • Host-Pathogen Interactions and Chronic Lung Allograft Dysfunction. 
  • ICON: the early diagnosis of congenital immunodeficiencies. 
  • Imaging of Brain Structural and Functional Effects in People With Human Immunodeficiency Virus. 
  • Immune reconstitution syndrome associated with opportunistic mycoses. 
  • Impaired bone marrow in AIDS. 
  • Infections after the use of alemtuzumab in solid organ transplant recipients: a comparative study. 
  • Infections diagnosed in the first year after pediatric stem cell transplantation. 
  • Invasive Curvularia Infection in Pediatric Patients With Hematologic Malignancy Identified by Fungal Sequencing. 
  • Invasive non-Aspergillus mold infections in transplant recipients, United States, 2001-2006. 
  • Kaposi's sarcoma involving the lung in patients with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. 
  • Lymphodepletional strategies in transplantation. 
  • Manifestations of pulmonary cryptococcosis in patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. 
  • Measles giant cell pneumonia in a child with human immunodeficiency virus infection. 
  • Methylobacterium mesophilica as a cause of persistent bacteremia in a child with lymphoma. 
  • Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare complex infections in the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. 
  • Network-assisted genetic dissection of pathogenicity and drug resistance in the opportunistic human pathogenic fungus Cryptococcus neoformans. 
  • New aspects of emerging fungal pathogens. A multifaceted challenge. 
  • Nocardia infection in lung transplant recipients. 
  • OKT3 vs ALG induction therapy in combined pancreas-kidney transplantation. 
  • Opportunistic cutaneous fungal infections in the inpatient setting. 
  • Opportunistic fungal pneumonia. 
  • Opportunistic mycelial fungal infections in organ transplant recipients: emerging importance of non-Aspergillus mycelial fungi. 
  • Opportunistic pulmonary infections with fludarabine in previously treated patients with low-grade lymphoid malignancies: a role for Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia prophylaxis. 
  • Orthotopic liver transplantation in patients 60 years of age and older. 
  • Perioperative methylprednisolone and outcome in neonates undergoing heart surgery. 
  • Phaeohyphomycosis in transplant recipients: Results from the Transplant Associated Infection Surveillance Network (TRANSNET). 
  • Phosphonylmethoxyalkyl purine and pyrimidine derivatives for treatment of opportunistic cytomegalovirus and herpes simplex virus infections in murine AIDS. 
  • Poor Oral Health Linked with Increased Risk of Infectious Complications in Adults with Leukemia. 
  • Posaconazole vs. fluconazole or itraconazole prophylaxis in patients with neutropenia. 
  • Posttransplant infection in enteric versus bladder-drained simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplant recipients. 
  • Posttransplant lymphoproliferative disorders and Epstein-Barr virus prophylaxis. 
  • Preventing opportunistic infections after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation: the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Infectious Diseases Society of America, and American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation Practice Guidelines and beyond. 
  • Primary lymphocutaneous Nocardia brasiliensis infection. 
  • Pulmonary cytology of the acquired immune deficiency syndrome: an analysis of 36 cases. 
  • Radiologic imaging of AIDS. 
  • Respiratory viral infections in lung transplant recipients: radiologic findings with clinical correlation. 
  • Rhodococcus equi causing human pulmonary infection: review of 29 cases. 
  • Risk factors for BK polyomavirus nephritis in renal allograft recipients. 
  • Risk factors in necrotizing fasciitis: a case involving Cryptococcus neoformans. 
  • Sexual cycle of Cryptococcus neoformans var. grubii and virulence of congenic a and alpha isolates. 
  • Simultaneous pneumococcal and Pneumocystis pneumonia in patients with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. 
  • Strategies for the prevention of infection after solid organ transplantation. 
  • Successful use of amphotericin B lipid complex in the treatment of cryptococcosis. 
  • The acquired immunodeficiency syndrome in intravenous drug abusers and patients with a sexual risk: clinical and postmortem comparisons. 
  • The chest radiograph in acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. 
  • The effect of prophylactic intravenous immune globulin on the incidence of septicemia in marrow transplant recipients. 
  • The impact of culture isolation of Aspergillus species: a hospital-based survey of aspergillosis. 
  • The impact of the host on fungal infections. 
  • The new fungal opportunists are coming. 
  • The spectrum of fungi that infects humans. 
  • Thoracic mycoses from opportunistic fungi: radiologic-pathologic correlation. 
  • Treatment of non-Aspergillus moulds in immunocompromised patients, with amphotericin B lipid complex. 
  • Unrelated umbilical cord blood transplantation in adult patients. 
  • Update on Nocardia infections in solid-organ transplantation. 
  • Varicella zoster as a manifestation of immune restoration disease in HIV-infected children. 
  • Viral infections in the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. 
  • West Nile virus-associated encephalitis in recipients of renal and pancreas transplants: case series and literature review. 
  • Zidovudine-induced neutropenia: are we too cautious? 
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  Keywords of People

  • Le, Thuy, Associate Professor of Medicine, Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
  • Sampson, John Howard, Robert H., M.D. and Gloria Wilkins Professor of Neurosurgery, in the School of Medicine, Biomedical Engineering