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Oliver Kurzai is affiliated with the University of Würzburg in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with a strong specialization in infectious diseases, epidemiology, molecular biology, immunology, and cell biology.

The main topics of their work include:

  • Antifungal resistance and susceptibility
  • Fungal infections and studies
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research
  • SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing
  • Plant pathogens and fungal diseases
  • Respiratory viral infections research
  • Bacterial identification and susceptibility testing

Oliver Kurzai has frequently published in several scientific venues, including:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), with 25 publications
  • Journal of Fungi, with 8 publications
  • mBio, with 7 publications
  • Clinical Microbiology and Infection, with 6 publications
  • Mycoses, with 6 publications

Some recent papers associated with their research include:

  • "Tracing the Evolutionary History and Global Expansion of Candida auris Using Population Genomic Analyses," 2020, published in mBio
  • "How to interpret MICs of antifungal compounds according to the revised clinical breakpoints v. 10.0 European committee on antimicrobial susceptibility testing (EUCAST)," 2020, published in Clinical Microbiology and Infection
  • "Phylogenomic Analysis of a 55.1-kb 19-Gene Dataset Resolves a Monophyletic Fusarium that Includes the Fusarium solani Species Complex," 2020, published in Phytopathology
  • "Risk Factors for Invasive Candida Infection in Critically Ill Patients," 2021, published in CHEST Journal
  • "Noncanonical crRNAs derived from host transcripts enable multiplexable RNA detection by Cas9," 2021, published in Science

Their collaborative network includes frequent co-authors such as Lars Dölken, Manuel Krone, Grit Walther, Isabell Wagenhäuser, and Nils Petri, each having contributed to multiple joint publications.

Best Publications

  • Candidalysin is a fungal peptide toxin critical for mucosal infection

    David L. Moyes;Duncan Wilson;Jonathan P. Richardson;Selene Mogavero

  • Tracing the Evolutionary History and Global Expansion of Candida auris Using Population Genomic Analyses.

    Nancy A. Chow;José F. Muñoz;Lalitha Gade;Elizabeth L. Berkow

  • Genetic PTX3 Deficiency and Aspergillosis in Stem-Cell Transplantation

    Cristina Cunha;Franco Aversa;João F Lacerda;Alessandro Busca

  • The Aspergillus fumigatus transcriptional regulator AfYap1 represents the major regulator for defense against reactive oxygen intermediates but is dispensable for pathogenicity in an intranasal mouse infection model.

    Franziska Lessing;Franziska Lessing;Olaf Kniemeyer;Olaf Kniemeyer;Iwona Wozniok;Juergen Loeffler

  • Whole-genome comparison of disease and carriage strains provides insights into virulence evolution in Neisseria meningitidis

    Christoph Schoen;Jochen Blom;Heike Claus;Anja Schramm-Glück

  • How to interpret MICs of antifungal compounds according to the revised clinical breakpoints v. 10.0 European committee on antimicrobial susceptibility testing (EUCAST).

    M.C. Arendrup;M.C. Arendrup;N. Friberg;M. Mares;G. Kahlmeter

  • Impact of plasma histones in human sepsis and their contribution to cellular injury and inflammation

    Michael Liembo Ekaney;Gordon Philipp Otto;Maik Sossdorf;Christoph Sponholz

  • Phylogenomic Analysis of a 55.1-kb 19-Gene Dataset Resolves a Monophyletic Fusarium that Includes the Fusarium solani Species Complex.

    David M. Geiser;Abdullah M. S. Al-Hatmi;Takayuki Aoki;Tsutomu Arie

  • Updates on the Taxonomy of Mucorales with an Emphasis on Clinically Important Taxa.

    Grit Walther;Lysett Wagner;Oliver Kurzai;Oliver Kurzai

  • Invasive fungal infection

    Marie von Lilienfeld-Toal;Johannes Wagener;Hermann Einsele;Oliver A. Cornely

  • Human NK cells display important antifungal activity against Aspergillus fumigatus, which is directly mediated by IFN-γ release.

    Maria Bouzani;Michael Ok;Allison McCormick;Frank Ebel

  • Cellular responses of Candida albicans to phagocytosis and the extracellular activities of neutrophils are critical to counteract carbohydrate starvation, oxidative and nitrosative stress.

    Pedro Miramón;Christine Dunker;Hanna Windecker;Iryna M. Bohovych

  • Dominant active alleles of RIM101 (PRR2) bypass the pH restriction on filamentation of Candida albicans.

    Abdelmalic El Barkani;Oliver Kurzai;William A. Fonzi;Ana Ramon

  • A Core Filamentation Response Network in Candida albicans Is Restricted to Eight Genes

    Ronny Martin;Daniela Albrecht-Eckardt;Sascha Brunke;Bernhard Hube

  • Proinflammatory response of immature human dendritic cells is mediated by dectin-1 after exposure to Aspergillus fumigatus germ tubes.

    Markus Mezger;Susanne Kneitz;Iwona Wozniok;Oliver Kurzai

  • Cytosolic Proteins Contribute to Surface Plasminogen Recruitment of Neisseria meningitidis

    Andreas Knaust;Martin V. R. Weber;Sven Hammerschmidt;Simone Bergmann

  • Human Natural Killer Cells Acting as Phagocytes Against Candida albicans and Mounting an Inflammatory Response That Modulates Neutrophil Antifungal Activity

    Jessica Voigt;Kerstin Hünniger;Maria Bouzani;Ilse D. Jacobsen

  • Rapid PCR test for discriminating between Candida albicans and Candida dubliniensis isolates using primers derived from the pH-regulated PHR1 and PHR2 genes of C. albicans.

    Oliver Kurzai;Werner J. Heinz;Derek J. Sullivan;David C. Coleman

  • Noncanonical crRNAs derived from host transcripts enable multiplexable RNA detection by Cas9.

    Chunlei Jiao;Sahil Sharma;Gaurav Dugar;Natalia L. Peeck

  • Host response to Candida albicans bloodstream infection and sepsis

    Seána Duggan;Ines Leonhardt;Kerstin Hünniger;Oliver Kurzai

Frequent Co-Authors

Hermann Einsele
Hermann Einsele University of Würzburg
Bernhard Hube
Bernhard Hube Leibniz Association
Matthias Frosch
Matthias Frosch University of Würzburg
Ilse D. Jacobsen
Ilse D. Jacobsen Leibniz Association
Axel Hamprecht
Axel Hamprecht University of Cologne
Axel A. Brakhage
Axel A. Brakhage Leibniz Association
Olaf Kniemeyer
Olaf Kniemeyer Leibniz Association
Oliver A. Cornely
Oliver A. Cornely University of Cologne
Reinhard Guthke
Reinhard Guthke Leibniz Association
Thomas R. Rogers
Thomas R. Rogers Trinity College Dublin

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