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  • 2012 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Stuart M. Levitz is affiliated with the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on the field of Medicine, with substantial work in Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases. Additional attention has been directed toward Plant Science, Immunology, and Molecular Biology within their scholarly contributions.

The main topics covered in Levitz's work include:

  • Fungal Infections and Studies
  • Antifungal resistance and susceptibility
  • Nail Diseases and Treatments
  • Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity
  • Asthma and respiratory diseases
  • Antimicrobial Peptides and Activities
  • Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases

Levitz has published several papers in various scientific journals, some of which include:

  • Vaccines for human fungal diseases: close but still a long way to go (2021) in npj Vaccines
  • The "Black Fungus" in India: The Emerging Syndemic of COVID-19-Associated Mucormycosis (2021) in Annals of Internal Medicine
  • Candida auris outbreak involving liver transplant recipients in a surgical intensive care unit (2020) in American Journal of Transplantation
  • Cryptococcus neoformans Cda1 and Cda2 coordinate deacetylation of chitin during infection to control fungal virulence (2021) in The Cell Surface
  • Protection of Mice against Experimental Cryptococcosis by Synthesized Peptides Delivered in Glucan Particles (2022) in mBio

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Charles A. Specht
  • Chrono K. Lee
  • Lorena V. N. Oliveira
  • Maureen M. Hester
  • Ruiying Wang

Levitz has published multiple times in specific venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • mBio
  • PLoS Pathogens
  • npj Vaccines
  • Annals of Internal Medicine

The scope of their work includes 67 publications categorized under Medicine with emphasis on epidemiological and infectious disease aspects. The scientist's research addresses antifungal resistance, mechanisms of fungal pathogenesis, and efforts toward vaccine development among other concerns related to fungal diseases and immune responses.

In recognition of their contributions, Stuart M. Levitz was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2012.

Best Publications

  • Hidden Killers: Human Fungal Infections

    Gordon D. Brown;David W. Denning;Neil A. R. Gow;Stuart M. Levitz

  • Histatins, a novel family of histidine-rich proteins in human parotid secretion. Isolation, characterization, primary structure, and fungistatic effects on Candida albicans.

    F. G. Oppenheim;Tao Xu;F. M. Mcmillian;S. M. Levitz

  • Tackling human fungal infections.

    Gordon D. Brown;David W. Denning;Stuart M. Levitz

  • The Contribution of the Toll-Like/IL-1 Receptor Superfamily to Innate and Adaptive Immunity to Fungal Pathogens In Vivo

    Silvia Bellocchio;Claudia Montagnoli;Silvia Bozza;Roberta Gaziano

  • The Ecology of Cryptococcus neoformans and the Epidemiology of Cryptococcosis

    Stuart M. Levitz

  • The immune response to fungal infections

    Shmuel Shoham;Stuart M. Levitz

  • Toll-like receptor 4 mediates intracellular signaling without TNF-alpha release in response to Cryptococcus neoformans polysaccharide capsule.

    Shmuel Shoham;Chao Huang;Jian-Min Chen;Douglas T. Golenbock

  • The Case for Adopting the "Species Complex" Nomenclature for the Etiologic Agents of Cryptococcosis.

    Kyung J. Kwon-Chung;John E. Bennett;Brian L. Wickes;Wieland Meyer

  • Toll-like receptor (TLR) signaling in response to Aspergillus fumigatus.

    Salamatu S. Mambula;Keya Sau;Philipp Henneke;Douglas T. Golenbock

  • Virulence factors of medically important fungi.

    L H Hogan;B S Klein;S M Levitz

  • Anticandidal activity of major human salivary histatins.

    Tao Xu;S. M. Levitz;R. D. Diamond;F. G. Oppenheim

  • Cryptococcus neoformans Resides in an Acidic Phagolysosome of Human Macrophages

    Stuart M. Levitz;Shu Hua Nong;Kurt F. Seetoo;Thomas S. Harrison

  • In vivo bronchoalveolar macrophage defense against Rhizopus oryzae and Aspergillus fumigatus

    Alayn R. Waldorf;Stuart M. Levitz;Richard D. Diamond

  • A Rapid Colorimetric Assay of Fungal Viability with the Tetrazolium Salt MTT

    Stuart M. Levitz;Richard D. Diamond

  • A chitin synthase and its regulator protein are critical for chitosan production and growth of the fungal pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans.

    Isaac R. Banks;Charles A. Specht;Maureen J. Donlin;Kimberly J. Gerik

  • The Antifungal Drug Amphotericin B Promotes Inflammatory Cytokine Release by a Toll-like Receptor- and CD14-dependent Mechanism

    Keya Sau;Salamatu S. Mambula;Eicke Latz;Philipp Henneke

  • Idiopathic CD4+ T-Lymphocytopenia -- Four Patients with Opportunistic Infections and No Evidence of HIV Infection

    Robert A. Duncan;C. Fordham von Reyn;George M. Alliegro;Zahra Toossi

  • Chitosan but Not Chitin Activates the Inflammasome by a Mechanism Dependent upon Phagocytosis

    Chelsea L. Bueter;Chrono K. Lee;Vijay A.K. Rathinam;Gloria J. Healy

  • Innate sensing of chitin and chitosan

    Chelsea L. Bueter;Charles A. Specht;Stuart M. Levitz

  • Involvement of CD14, toll-like receptors 2 and 4, and MyD88 in the host response to the fungal pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans in vivo.

    Lauren E. Yauch;Michael K. Mansour;Shmuel Shoham;James B. Rottman

  • A Simplified New Assay for Assessment of Fungal Cell Damage with the Tetrazolium Dye, (2,3)-bis-(2-Methoxy-4-Nitro-5-Sulphenyl)-(2H)-Tetrazolium-5-Carboxanilide (XTT)

    Tova Meshulam;Stuart M. Levitz;Laurent Christin;Richard D. Diamond

  • In Vitro Killing of Spores and Hyphae of Aspergillus fumigatus and Rhizopus oryzae by Rabbit Neutrophil Cationic Peptides and Bronchoalveolar Macrophages

    Stuart M. Levitz;Michael E. Selsted;Tomas Ganz;Robert I. Lehrer

  • IMMUNE RESPONSE TO FUNGAL INFECTIONS

    S Shoham;S M Levitz

Frequent Co-Authors

Charles A. Specht
Charles A. Specht University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Richard D. Diamond
Richard D. Diamond Boston Medical Center
Thomas S. Harrison
Thomas S. Harrison St George's, University of London
Douglas T. Golenbock
Douglas T. Golenbock University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Jennifer K. Lodge
Jennifer K. Lodge Washington University in St. Louis
Sanjay Ram
Sanjay Ram University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Garry T. Cole
Garry T. Cole The University of Texas at San Antonio
Kyung J. Kwon-Chung
Kyung J. Kwon-Chung National Institutes of Health
Robert W. Finberg
Robert W. Finberg University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Françoise Dromer
Françoise Dromer Institut Pasteur

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