Currently, our knowledge of how pathogenic fungi grow in mammalian host environments is
limited. Using a chemotherapeutic murine model of invasive pulmonary aspergillosis (IPA) …

Candida albicans is a commensal fungus that can cause systemic disease in patients with
breaches in mucosal integrity, indwelling catheters, and defects in phagocyte function. …

Purpose The ketogenic diet is an alternative treatment for patients with refractory epilepsy.
Most studies to date report dietary response in children. There are limited data evaluating the …

Background Breastfeeding self-efficacy refers to a mother's confidence about her ability to
breastfeed, which has been found to shape her choice about whether or not to do so. It …

Fluorescence can be harnessed to monitor microbial fate and to investigate functional
outcomes of individual microbial cell-host cell encounters at portals of entry in native tissue …

Preterm birth increases the risk of adverse birth outcomes and is the leading cause of
neonatal mortality. A significant cause of preterm birth is in utero infection with vaginal …

Despite improvements in blood safety making transfusion a much safer clinical procedure,
the general public still perceives it as risky. We systematically reviewed available literature to …

Thirteen percent of pregnancies result in preterm birth or stillbirth, accounting for fifteen million
preterm births and three and a half million deaths annually. A significant cause of these …

Infection by the human fungal pathogen Aspergillus fumigatus induces hypoxic
microenvironments within the lung that can alter the course of fungal pathogenesis. How hypoxic …

… Leock Y Ngo is an employee of Eisai Inc. Part of this work was first presented as posters
at the 72nd Annual Meeting of the American Epilepsy Society, New Orleans, LA, USA, …