Pathogenesis of Invasive Pulmonary Aspergillosis in Transplant Recipients

Purpose of Review Transplant patients are at high risk for invasive pulmonary aspergillosis, and the associated mortality is high. The purpose of this study is to review the pathogenesis of invasive pulmonary aspergillosis (IPA) in transplant patients. Recent Findings The pathogenesis of aspergillosis is multifactorial and results from a complex interplay between the pathogen and host. It is well recognized that Aspergillus causes IPA in immunocompromised patients. Recent studies have shown that Aspergillus might also cause diseases likely attributed to an unmodulated immune response in certain transplant recipients such as bronchopulmonary aspergillosis or bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome in lung transplant recipients. Summary This review focuses on two crucial axes of the damage response framework applicable to aspergillosis: (1) Aspergillus virulence attributes that enable it to survive and proliferate in the host (thermotolerance, stress and hypoxic response, secretion of secondary metabolites) and (2) host response with specific focus on innate immunity and angiogenesis..

Medienart:

Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2017

Erschienen:

2017

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:11

Enthalten in:

Current fungal infection reports - 11(2017), 4 vom: Dez., Seite 148-157

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Samanta, Palash [VerfasserIn]
Hong Nguyen, M. [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Damage response framework
Invasive pulmonary aspergillosis
Pathogenesis
Transplant recipients

doi:

10.1007/s12281-017-0278-5

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

OLC2043289535