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The body's immune response to fungal infections changes when a patient is also infected by a virus, according to new research which investigated the two types of infection together for the first time.

ROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] -- Every year, fungal infections threaten thousands of patients -- from those with depressed immune systems to others who have had surgeries or devices such as ...

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A careful study of the human immune response to the C. auris infection demonstrated that specific components of the cell wall of the fungus play an essential role in this recognition. David ...

Exposure to a common fungal molecule can reprogram immune cells in the lungs, causing them to overreact to infection-like ...

The research group Immunology of Fungal Infections at the University of Valencia ... (which produce all the cells of the blood and lifelong immune system) to improve the immune response to infections.

However, the fungus also provoked Toll-1 to trigger the production of another molecule called Sarm, which suppresses the immune response and kills brain cells instead.

This cytokine, in turn, triggers what is known as a "type 2" immune response. The fungus symbiotically benefits its hosts by suppressing other fungi and by protecting them against worms through ...

Essentially, the rust fungus hacks SPL121 and switches off the soybean plant’s immune system, Whitham said. “Our idea is if we can disrupt that interaction, we take away one of the weapons of the ...

The body's immune response to fungal infections changes when a patient is also infected by a virus, according to new research which investigated the two types of infection together for the first time.