Invasive pulmonary aspergillosis is a life-threatening fungal infection that occurs when conidia (spores) from the Aspergillus fungus are inhaled and establish an infection in the lungs, particularly ...
Background. The airway epithelium is the first barrier interacting with Aspergillus fumigatus conidia after their inhalation, suggesting that this structure functions as point of entry of this fungus ...
The Journal of Infectious Diseases, Vol. 172, No. 4 (Oct., 1995), pp. 1028-1034 (7 pages) The effects of recombinant human macrophage colony-stimulating factor (M-CSF) on antifungal activity of human ...