Author(s):
Cunha, Cristina ; Gonçalves, Samuel M. ; Duarte-Oliveira, Claudio ; Leite, Luis ; Lagrou, Katrien ; Marques, António ; Lupianez, Carmen B. ; Mesquita, Inês ; Gaifem, Joana ; Barbosa, Ana Margarida ; Vaz, Carlos Pinho ; Branca, Rosa ; Campilho, Fernando ; Freitas, Fatima ; Ligeiro, Dario ; Lass-Floerl, Cornelia ; Loffler, Jurgen ; Jurado, Manuel ; Saraiva, Margarida ; Kurzai, Oliver ; Rodrigues, Fernando ; Castro, António G. ; Silvestre, Ricardo ; Sainz, Juan ; Maertens, Johan A. ; Torrado, Egídio ; Jacobsen, Ilse D. ; Lacerda, Joao F. ; Campos, Antonio, Jr. ; Carvalho, Agostinho
Date: 2017
Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/1822/67150
Origin: RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho
Subject(s): Adult; Aspergillosis; Female; Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation; Humans; Interleukin-10; Leukocytes, Mononuclear; Macrophages; Male; Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide; Young Adult; Genetic Predisposition to Disease; Science & Technology
Description
[Excerpt] To the Editor: Proinflammatory immune responses are critically required for antimicrobial host defenses; however, excessive inflammation has the potential to damage host tissues thereby paradoxically contributing to the progression of infection.[...]
Supported by the Northern Portugal Regional Operational Programme (NORTE 2020), under the Portugal 2020 Partnership Agreement, through the European Regional Development Fund (FEDER) (NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000013), the Fundacao para a Ciencia e Tecnologia (FCT) (contracts IF/00735/2014 to A.C., IF/01390/2014 to E.T., IF/00021/2014 to R.S., and SFRH/BPD/96176/2013 to C.C.), the Conselho de Reitores das Universidades Portuguesas (CRUP), Portugal (Acoes Integradas Luso-Alemas A-43/16), the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) (project-ID 57212690), the Fondo de Investigaciones Sanitarias (Madrid, Spain) (grant #PI12/02688) and the ERA-NET PathoGenoMics (grant #0315900A). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
