{"id":201184,"date":"2024-12-10T14:36:09","date_gmt":"2024-12-10T20:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/cryptococcus-virulence-study-lays-the-groundwork-for-future-treatments"},"modified":"2024-12-10T14:36:09","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T20:36:09","slug":"cryptococcus-virulence-study-lays-the-groundwork-for-future-treatments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/cryptococcus-virulence-study-lays-the-groundwork-for-future-treatments","title":{"rendered":"Cryptococcus virulence study lays the groundwork for future treatments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cryptococcus-virulence-study-lays-the-groundwork-for-future-treatments3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, the goal is to find ways to stop deadly disease caused by Cryptococcus neoformans from developing in humans and animals. But until that time, finding new and better ways to treat already existent disease and its symptoms is a high priority.<\/p>\n<p>The laboratory of Kirsten Nielsen in the Center for One Health Research has taken a step toward improved treatment of Cryptococcus, completing a six-year study to examine the virulence of 38 clinical isolates from various strains of Cryptococcus. The results are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-024-54729-6\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in Nature Communications.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe question that we\u2019ve been addressing is: Can we predict severe disease outcomes in patients?\u201d said Nielsen, professor of microbiology and immunology in the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine. \u201cIf we can predict disease outcome, then we can treat patients better. In these studies, we identified not just the genes that allow Cryptococcus to cause disease, but also the gene alleles that allow it to cause more disease or less disease.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ultimately, the goal is to find ways to stop deadly disease caused by Cryptococcus neoformans from developing in humans and animals. But until that time, finding new and better ways to treat already existent disease and its symptoms is a high priority. The laboratory of Kirsten Nielsen in the Center for One Health Research has [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}