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Drummond, RA, Desai, JV, Ricotta, EE, Swamydas, M, Deming, C, Conlan, S, Quinones, M, Matei-Rascu, V, Sherif, L, Lecky, D, Lee, C-CR, Green, NM, Collins, N, Zelazny, AM, Prevots, DR, Bending, D, Withers, D, Belkaid, Y, Segre, JA & Lionakis, MS 2022, 'Long-term antibiotic exposure promotes mortality after systemic fungal infection by driving lymphocyte dysfunction and systemic escape of commensal bacteria', Cell Host & Microbe, vol. 30, no. 7, pp. 1020-1033.e6. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chom.2022.04.013
Drummond, RA, Swamydas, M, Oikonomou, V, Zhai, B, Dambuza, IM, Schaefer, BC, Bohrer, AC, Mayer-barber, KD, Lira, SA, Iwakura, Y, Filler, SG, Brown, GD, Hube, B, Naglik, JR, Hohl, TM & Lionakis, MS 2019, 'CARD9+ Microglia Orchestrate Antifungal Immunity via IL-1β and CXCL1-mediated Neutrophil Recruitment', Nature Immunology, vol. 20, no. 5, pp. 559–570. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41590-019-0377-2
Swidergall, M, Khalaji, M, Solis, NV, Moyes, D, Drummond, R, Hube, B, Lionakis, MS, Murdoch, C, Filler, SG & Naglik, JR 2019, 'Candidalysin is required for neutrophil recruitment and virulence during systemic candida albicans infection', The Journal of Infectious Diseases, vol. 220, no. 9, pp. 1477–1488. https://doi.org/10.1093/infdis/jiz322
Drummond, RA & Lionakis, MS 2018, 'Candidiasis of the central nervous system in neonates and children with primary immunodeficiencies', Current Fungal Infection Reports, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 92-97. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12281-018-0316-y
Cougnoux, A, Drummond, RA, Collar, AL, Iben, JR, Salman, A, Westgarth, H, Wassif, CA, Cawley, NX, Farhat, NY, Ozato, K, Lionakis, MS & Porter, FD 2018, 'Microglia activation in Niemann-Pick disease, type C1 is amendable to therapeutic intervention', Human Molecular Genetics, vol. 27, no. 12, pp. 2076-2089. https://doi.org/10.1093/hmg/ddy112
Drummond, RA & Lionakis, MS 2018, 'Organ-specific mechanisms linking innate and adaptive antifungal immunity', Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.semcdb.2018.01.008
Kasper, L, König, A, Koenig, PA, Gresnigt, MS, Westman, J, Drummond, RA, Lionakis, MS, Groß, O, Ruland, J, Naglik, JR & Hube, B 2018, 'The fungal peptide toxin Candidalysin activates the NLRP3 inflammasome and causes cytolysis in mononuclear phagocytes', Nature Communications, vol. 9, no. 1, 4260. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06607-1
St. Leger, AJ, Desai, JV, Drummond, RA, Kugadas, A, Almaghrabi, F, Silver, P, Raychaudhuri, K, Gadjeva, M, Iwakura, Y, Lionakis, MS & Caspi, RR 2017, 'An ocular commensal protects against corneal infection by driving an Interleukin-17 response from mucosal γδ T cells', Immunity, vol. 47, no. 1, pp. 148-158.e5. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.immuni.2017.06.014
Drummond, RA, Dambuza, IM, Vautier, S, Taylor, JA, Reid, DM, Bain, CC, Underhill, DM, Masopust, D, Kaplan, DH & Brown, GD 2016, 'CD4+ T-cell survival in the GI tract requires dectin-1 during fungal infection', Mucosal immunology, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 492-502. https://doi.org/10.1038/mi.2015.79
Letter
Drummond, RA, Zahra, FT, Natarajan, M, Swamydas, M, Hsu, AP, Wheat, LJ, Gavino, C, Vinh, DC, Holland, SM, Mikelis, CM & Lionakis, MS 2018, 'GM-CSF therapy in human caspase recruitment domain–containing protein 9 deficiency', Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, vol. 142, no. 4, pp. 1334-1338.e5. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaci.2018.05.025
Review article
Drummond, RA 2023, 'What fungal CNS infections can teach us about neuroimmunology and CNS-specific immunity', Seminars in Immunology, vol. 67, 101751. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.smim.2023.101751
Fu, MS & Drummond, RA 2020, 'The Diverse Roles of Monocytes in Cryptococcosis', Journal of Fungi, vol. 6, no. 3, 111, pp. 1-14. https://doi.org/10.3390/jof6030111
Clark, C & Drummond, R 2019, 'The hidden cost of modern medical interventions: how medical advances have shaped the prevalence of human fungal disease', Pathogens, vol. 8, no. 2, 45, pp. 1-11. https://doi.org/10.3390/pathogens8020045
Drummond, RA 2017, 'Neuro-Immune Mechanisms of Anti-Cryptococcal Protection', Journal of Fungi, vol. 4, no. 1, 4. https://doi.org/10.3390/jof4010004
Short survey
Drummond, RA, Franco, LM & Lionakis, MS 2018, 'Human CARD9: a critical molecule of fungal immune surveillance', Frontiers in immunology, vol. 9, 1836. https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2018.01836
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