A neglected epidemic: fungal infections in HIV/AIDS

D Armstrong-James, G Meintjes, GD Brown - Trends in microbiology, 2014 - cell.com
Invasive fungal infections (IFIs) are a major cause of HIV-related mortality globally. Despite
widespread rollout of combined antiretroviral therapy, there are still up to 1 million deaths …

Atypical memory B cells in human chronic infectious diseases: An interim report

S Portugal, N Obeng-Adjei, S Moir, PD Crompton… - Cellular …, 2017 - Elsevier
Immunological memory is a remarkable phenomenon in which survival of an initial infection
by a pathogen leads to life-long protection from disease upon subsequent exposure to that …

Prevalence of non-HIV cancer risk factors in persons living with HIV/AIDS: a meta-analysis

LS Park, RU Hernández-Ramírez, MJ Silverberg… - Aids, 2016 - journals.lww.com
Objective: The burden of cancer among persons living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) is substantial
and increasing. We assessed the prevalence of modifiable cancer risk factors among adult …

Insights into B cells and HIV‐specific B‐cell responses in HIV‐infected individuals

S Moir, AS Fauci - Immunological reviews, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) disease is associated with dysregulation and
dysfunction involving all major lymphocyte populations, including B cells. Such perturbations …

Attenuated humoral responses in HIV after SARS-CoV-2 vaccination linked to B cell defects and altered immune profiles

E Touizer, A Alrubayyi, R Ford, N Hussain, PP Gerber… - Iscience, 2023 - cell.com
We assessed a cohort of people living with human immunodeficiency virus (PLWH)(n= 110)
and HIV negative controls (n= 64) after 1, 2 or 3 SARS-CoV-2 vaccine doses. At all …

Impairment of B-cell functions during HIV-1 infection

S Amu, N Ruffin, B Rethi, F Chiodi - Aids, 2013 - journals.lww.com
A variety of B-cell dysfunctions are manifested during HIV-1 infection, as reported early
during the HIV-1 epidemic. It is not unusual that the pathogenic mechanisms presented to …

Type I interferons induce an epigenetically distinct memory B cell subset in chronic viral infection

L Cooper, H Xu, J Polmear, L Kealy, C Szeto, ES Pang… - Immunity, 2024 - cell.com
Memory B cells (MBCs) are key providers of long-lived immunity against infectious disease,
yet in chronic viral infection, they do not produce effective protection. How chronic viral …

Opportunistic yeast pathogens: reservoirs, virulence mechanisms, and therapeutic strategies

EJ Polvi, X Li, TR O'Meara, MD Leach… - Cellular and Molecular …, 2015 - Springer
Life-threatening invasive fungal infections are becoming increasingly common, at least in
part due to the prevalence of medical interventions resulting in immunosuppression …

T follicular helper cells and B cell dysfunction in aging and HIV-1 infection

S Pallikkuth, L De Armas, S Rinaldi… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
T follicular helper (Tfh) cells are a subset of CD4 T cells that provide critical signals to
antigen-primed B cells in germinal centers to undergo proliferation, isotype switching, and …

The architecture of circulating immune cells is dysregulated in people living with HIV on long term antiretroviral treatment and relates with markers of the HIV-1 …

L Van de Wijer, WA Van der Heijden, R Horst… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Long-term changes in the immune system of successfully treated people living with HIV
(PLHIV) remain incompletely understood. In this study, we assessed 108 white blood cell …