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Fungal Immunology:

From an Organ Perspective

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  • © 2005

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Editors:
  1. Paul L. Fidel

    1. Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Parasitology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans

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  2. Gary B. Huffnagle

    1. Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

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  • Serves as a comprehensive review of all known immune mechanisms for common medically important fungal pathogens from the organ perspectives of the human body
  • Related to host defense mechanisms against specific fungi that cause infection at specific tissue. It is appealing, timely and relevant, coming from two recognized leaders in the field. This will fill an enormous gap in current literature related to the topic
  • Balanced review on the immune response against medically important fungi from the organ perspective of the human body and serves as an authoritative review and guide to academicians, clinicians and researchers
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (24 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Nasal Cavity

    1. Fungal Sinusitis

      • Tobias E. Rodriguez, Jack R. Harkema, Gary B. Huffnagle
      Pages 1-12

  3. Oral Cavity

    1. Innate Defense Mechanisms in Oral Candidiasis

      • Anna Dongari-Bagtzoglou
      Pages 13-35

    2. Humoral Factors in the Protection of the Oral Cavity against Candidiasis

      • Stephen J. Challacombe, Durdana Rahman, Mukesh Mistry, Julian R. Naglik
      Pages 37-57

    3. Oral Candidiasis: Clinical Manifestations and Cellular Adaptive Host Responses

      • Robert B. Ashman, Camile S. Farah
      Pages 59-83

  4. Lungs

    1. The Innate and Adaptive Immune Response to Pulmonary Histoplasma capsulatum Infection

      • George S. Deepe Jr.
      Pages 85-112

    2. Lung Immunity to Blastomyces dermatitidis Infection

      • Marcel Wüthrich, Bruce S. Klein
      Pages 113-133

    3. Innate Immunity in the Lungs to Cryptococcal Infection

      • Kazuyoshi Kawakami
      Pages 135-155

    4. Pulmonary Cell-Mediated Immunity (CMI) to Cryptococcus neoformans

      • Dennis M. Lindell, Gary B. Huffnagle
      Pages 157-180

    5. Antibody-Mediated Immunity to Fungi in the Lungs

      • Marta Feldmesser, Arturo Casadevall
      Pages 181-200

    6. Pulmonary Paracoccidioidomycosis

      • Vera Lúcia Garcia Calich, Maria Heloísa Souza Lima Blotta
      Pages 201-227

    7. The Innate and Acquired Pulmonary Immune Response to Aspergillus fumigatus

      • Jane M. Schuh, Cory M. Hogaboam
      Pages 229-239

    8. Fungal Hypersensitivity in the Lungs

      • Viswanath P. Kurup, Alan P. Knutsen
      Pages 241-264

    9. Immunology of Pulmonary Pneumocystis Infection: Cell-Mediated Immunity

      • Judd E. Shellito, James M. Beck
      Pages 265-289

    10. Antibody-Mediated Immunity to Pneumocystis in the Lungs

      • Beth A. Garvy, Francis Gigliotti
      Pages 291-302

  6. Vaginal Tract

    1. Innate and Adaptive Cell-Mediated Immunity against Vaginal Candidiasis

      • Paul L. Fidel Jr.
      Pages 323-344

    2. The Role of Humoral Immunity against Vaginal Candida Infection

      • Flavia De Bernardis, Maria Boccanera, Antonio Cassone
      Pages 345-355
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About this book

Fungal immunology, an expanding field of research, studies the interaction between fungi and the immune system. Modulated immunity as well as evasive mechanisms played by fungi all contribute to the chronicity and reoccurrence of fungal infections. Hypersensitivity to various fungal elements plays a major role in the pathogenesis of many diseases.

This book will serve as a comprehensive review of all known immune mechanisms for common medically important fungal pathogens. Its novelty lies in the organization: Rather than chapters devoted to specific fungi, chapters are organized by organ system. All other texts in the field, which are now quite old, are arranged according to specific fungi. Organization by body system rather than fungi is important because one particular fungus can have a different effect on defense mechanisms in different parts of the body.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Parasitology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans

    Paul L. Fidel

  • Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

    Gary B. Huffnagle

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