Georgios Chamilos

Research interests

Publications

• Aspergillus fumigatus and Aspergillosis in 2019

  Clinical Microbiology Reviews · 2019 · 10.1128/cmr.00140-18

• Call for Action: Invasive Fungal Infections Associated With Ibrutinib and Other Small Molecule Kinase Inhibitors Targeting Immune Signaling Pathways

  Clinical Infectious Diseases · 2017 · 10.1093/cid/cix687

• The Cell Wall of the Human Fungal Pathogen Aspergillus fumigatus: Biosynthesis, Organization, Immune Response, and Virulence

  Annual Review of Microbiology · 2017 · 10.1146/annurev-micro-030117-020406

• Initial use of combination treatment does not impact survival of 106 patients with haematologic malignancies and mucormycosis: a propensity score analysis

  Clinical Microbiology and Infection · 2016 · 10.1016/j.cmi.2016.03.029

• TH17 cells promote microbial killing and innate immune sensing of DNA via interleukin 26

  Nature Immunology · 2015 · 10.1038/ni.3211

• Aspergillus Cell Wall Melanin Blocks LC3-Associated Phagocytosis to Promote Pathogenicity

  Cell Host & Microbe · 2015 · 10.1016/j.chom.2015.12.002

• Cationic antimicrobial peptides in psoriatic skin cooperate to break innate tolerance to self‐DNA

  European Journal of Immunology · 2014 · 10.1002/eji.201344277

• The antimicrobial peptide LL37 is a T-cell autoantigen in psoriasis

  Nature Communications · 2014 · 10.1038/ncomms6621

• IL-1 receptor blockade restores autophagy and reduces inflammation in chronic granulomatous disease in mice and in humans

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2014 · 10.1073/pnas.1322831111

• Autophagy Controls BCG-Induced Trained Immunity and the Response to Intravesical BCG Therapy for Bladder Cancer

  PLoS Pathogens · 2014 · 10.1371/journal.ppat.1004485

• Epidemiology and sites of involvement of invasive fungal infections in patients with haematological malignancies: a 20‐year autopsy study

  Mycoses · 2013 · 10.1111/myc.12081

• Cytosolic sensing of extracellular self-DNA transported into monocytes by the antimicrobial peptide LL37

  Blood · 2012 · 10.1182/blood-2012-01-401364

• Neutrophils Activate Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cells by Releasing Self-DNA–Peptide Complexes in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

  Science Translational Medicine · 2011 · https://doi.org/10.1126/scitranslmed.3001180

• Self-RNA–antimicrobial peptide complexes activate human dendritic cells through TLR7 and TLR8

  The Journal of Experimental Medicine · 2009 · https://doi.org/10.1084/jem.20090480

• Delaying Amphotericin B–Based Frontline Therapy Significantly Increases Mortality among Patients with Hematologic Malignancy Who Have Zygomycosis

  Clinical Infectious Diseases · 2008 · https://doi.org/10.1086/590004

• Gliotoxin Production inAspergillus fumigatusContributes to Host‐Specific Differences in Virulence

  The Journal of Infectious Diseases · 2008 · 10.1086/525044

• Caspofungin‐Mediated β‐Glucan Unmasking and Enhancement of Human Polymorphonuclear Neutrophil Activity against Aspergillus and Non‐ Aspergillus Hyphae

  The Journal of Infectious Diseases · 2008 · 10.1086/589305

• Breakthrough zygomycosis after voriconazole administration among patients with hematologic malignancies who receive hematopoietic stem-cell transplants or intensive chemotherapy

  Bone Marrow Transplantation · 2007 · 10.1038/sj.bmt.1705614

• Paradoxical Effect of Echinocandins across Candida Species In Vitro: Evidence for Echinocandin-Specific and Candida Species-Related Differences

  Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy · 2007 · 10.1128/aac.00095-07

• Increased bone marrow iron stores is an independent risk factor for invasive aspergillosis in patients with high‐risk hematologic malignancies and recipients of allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation

  Cancer · 2007 · 10.1002/cncr.22909

• Invasive fungal infections in patients with hematologic malignancies in a tertiary care cancer center: an autopsy study over a 15-year period (1989-2003).

  PubMed · 2006

• Scedosporium Infection in a Tertiary Care Cancer Center: A Review of 25 Cases from 1989-2006

  Clinical Infectious Diseases · 2006 · 10.1086/509579

• Zygomycosis in a Tertiary‐Care Cancer Center in the Era of Aspergillus‐ Active Antifungal Therapy: A Case‐Control Observational Study of 27 Recent Cases

  The Journal of Infectious Diseases · 2005 · https://doi.org/10.1086/428780

• Hyperbaric oxygen as an adjunctive treatment for zygomycosis

  Clinical Microbiology and Infection · 2005 · 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2005.01170.x

• Predictors of Pulmonary Zygomycosis versus Invasive Pulmonary Aspergillosis in Patients with Cancer

  Clinical Infectious Diseases · 2005 · 10.1086/430710

Current projects

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