The capsule of Cryptococcus neoformans A Casadevall, C Coelho, RJB Cordero, Q Dragotakes, E Jung, R Vij, ... Virulence 10 (1), 822-831, 2019 | 173 | 2019 |
Convalescent plasma use in the USA was inversely correlated with COVID-19 mortality A Casadevall, Q Dragotakes, PW Johnson, JW Senefeld, SA Klassen, ... Elife 10, e69866, 2021 | 63 | 2021 |
The outcome of the Cryptococcus neoformans–macrophage interaction depends on phagolysosomal membrane integrity D Leon-Rodriguez, M Carlos, DCP Rossi, MS Fu, Q Dragotakes, ... The Journal of Immunology 201 (2), 583-603, 2018 | 49 | 2018 |
Dragotcytosis: elucidation of the mechanism for Cryptococcus neoformans macrophage-to-macrophage transfer Q Dragotakes, MS Fu, A Casadevall The Journal of Immunology 202 (9), 2661-2670, 2019 | 35 | 2019 |
Macrophages use a bet-hedging strategy for antimicrobial activity in phagolysosomal acidification Q Dragotakes, KM Stouffer, MS Fu, Y Sella, C Youn, OI Yoon, ... The Journal of clinical investigation 130 (7), 3805-3819, 2020 | 29 | 2020 |
Variation in cell surface hydrophobicity among Cryptococcus neoformans strains influences interactions with amoebas R Vij, C Danchik, C Crawford, Q Dragotakes, A Casadevall MSphere 5 (2), 10.1128/msphere. 00310-20, 2020 | 29 | 2020 |
Automated measurement of cryptococcal species polysaccharide capsule and cell body Q Dragotakes, A Casadevall Journal of visualized experiments: JoVE, 2018 | 19 | 2018 |
Conservation of intracellular pathogenic strategy among distantly related cryptococcal species JB Freij, MS Fu, CM De Leon Rodriguez, A Dziedzic, AE Jedlicka, ... Infection and immunity 86 (7), 10.1128/iai. 00946-17, 2018 | 16 | 2018 |
Galleria mellonella immune melanization is fungicidal during infection DFQ Smith, Q Dragotakes, M Kulkarni, JM Hardwick, A Casadevall Communications biology 5 (1), 1364, 2022 | 15 | 2022 |
The capsule of Cryptococcus neoformans. Virulence 10: 822–831 A Casadevall, C Coelho, RJB Cordero, Q Dragotakes, E Jung, R Vij, ... | 15 | 2019 |
Melanin protects Cryptococcus neoformans from spaceflight effects RJB Cordero, Q Dragotakes, PJ Friello, A Casadevall Environmental microbiology reports 14 (4), 679-685, 2022 | 11 | 2022 |
Bet-hedging antimicrobial strategies in macrophage phagosome acidification drive the dynamics of Cryptococcus neoformans intracellular escape mechanisms Q Dragotakes, E Jacobs, LS Ramirez, OI Yoon, C Perez-Stable, H Eden, ... PLoS pathogens 18 (7), e1010697, 2022 | 9 | 2022 |
Similar evolutionary trajectories in an environmental Cryptococcus neoformans isolate after human and murine infection P Sephton-Clark, SA McConnell, N Grossman, RP Baker, Q Dragotakes, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 120 (2), e2217111120, 2023 | 7 | 2023 |
Melanization is an important antifungal defense mechanism in Galleria mellonella hosts DFQ Smith, Q Dragotakes, M Kulkarni, JM Hardwick, A Casadevall bioRxiv, 2022.04. 02.486843, 2022 | 7 | 2022 |
Convalescent plasma use in the United States was inversely correlated with COVID-19 mortality: did plasma hesitancy cost lives? A Casadevall, Q Dragotakes, PW Johnson, JW Senefeld, SA Klassen, ... medRxiv, 2021 | 7 | 2021 |
Cryptococcus neoformans releases proteins during intracellular residence that affect the outcome of the fungal–macrophage interaction EH Jung, YD Park, Q Dragotakes, LS Ramirez, DQ Smith, FCG Reis, ... Microlife 3, uqac015, 2022 | 6 | 2022 |
The capsule of Cryptococcus neoformans. Virulence, 10 (1), 822–831 A Casadevall, C Coelho, RJB Cordero, Q Dragotakes, E Jung, R Vij, ... | 5 | 2019 |
The capsule of Cryptococcus neoformans. Virulence. 2019; 10 (1): 822–31 A Casadevall, C Coelho, RJB Cordero, Q Dragotakes, E Jung, R Vij Epub 2018/02/14. https://doi. org/10.1080/21505594. 2018.1431087 PMID: 29436899, 0 | 5 | |
Human and murine Cryptococcus neoformans infection selects for common genomic changes in an environmental isolate P Sephton-Clark, SA McConnell, N Grossman, R Baker, Q Dragotakes, ... Biorxiv, 2022.04. 12.487930, 2022 | 3 | 2022 |
Estimates of Actual and Potential Lives Saved in the United States from the use of COVID-19 Convalescent Plasma Q Dragotakes, PW Johnson, MR Buras, RE Carter, MJ Joyner, E Bloch, ... medRxiv, 2024.05. 16.24307505, 2024 | 1 | 2024 |