The trial, funded by the UK Medical Research Council and the ANRS (the French national agency for research on AIDS and viral hepatitis), is the largest conducted to date, including over 700 participants, on the treatment of cryptococcal meningitis. (sciencedaily.com)
In a zebrafish model of cryptococcal disease, a decrease in ERK5 activity led to reduced dissemination of infection by an increase in vomocytosis. (immunology.org)
Cryptococcal infection, once thought to be an exclusively tropical disease, has killed 60 people in the Pacific Northwest as of July, and health experts suspect climate change is involved (scientificamerican.com)