Uncovering the diversity of pathogenic invaders: insights into protozoa, fungi, and worm infections
Post COVID-19, there has been renewed interest in understanding the pathogens challenging the human health and evaluate our preparedness towards dealing with health challenges in future. In this endeavour, it is not only the bacteria and the viruses, but a greater community of pathogens. Such pathog...
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| description | Post COVID-19, there has been renewed interest in understanding the pathogens challenging the human health and evaluate our preparedness towards dealing with health challenges in future. In this endeavour, it is not only the bacteria and the viruses, but a greater community of pathogens. Such pathogenic microorganisms, include protozoa, fungi and worms, which establish a distinct variety of disease-causing agents with the capability to impact the host’s well-being as well as the equity of ecosystem. This review summarises the peculiar characteristics and pathogenic mechanisms utilized by these disease-causing organisms. It features their role in causing infection in the concerned host and emphasizes the need for further research. Understanding the layers of pathogenesis encompassing the concerned infectious microbes will help expand targeted inferences with relation to the cause of the infection. This would strengthen and augment benefit to the host’s health along with the maintenance of ecosystem network, exhibiting host-pathogen interaction cycle. This would be key to discover the layers underlying differential disease severities in response to similar/same pathogen infection. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-5aec3c7e0d674307a764aae184f20aa92024-03-25T04:41:42ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Microbiology1664-302X2024-03-011510.3389/fmicb.2024.13744381374438Uncovering the diversity of pathogenic invaders: insights into protozoa, fungi, and worm infectionsRicha Shukla0Jyoti Soni1Jyoti Soni2Ashish Kumar3Rajesh Pandey4Rajesh Pandey5Division of Immunology and Infectious Disease Biology, INGEN-HOPE (INtegrative GENomics of HOst-PathogEn) Laboratory, CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (CSIR-IGIB), Delhi, IndiaDivision of Immunology and Infectious Disease Biology, INGEN-HOPE (INtegrative GENomics of HOst-PathogEn) Laboratory, CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (CSIR-IGIB), Delhi, IndiaAcademy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad, IndiaDivision of Immunology and Infectious Disease Biology, INGEN-HOPE (INtegrative GENomics of HOst-PathogEn) Laboratory, CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (CSIR-IGIB), Delhi, IndiaDivision of Immunology and Infectious Disease Biology, INGEN-HOPE (INtegrative GENomics of HOst-PathogEn) Laboratory, CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (CSIR-IGIB), Delhi, IndiaAcademy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad, IndiaPost COVID-19, there has been renewed interest in understanding the pathogens challenging the human health and evaluate our preparedness towards dealing with health challenges in future. In this endeavour, it is not only the bacteria and the viruses, but a greater community of pathogens. Such pathogenic microorganisms, include protozoa, fungi and worms, which establish a distinct variety of disease-causing agents with the capability to impact the host’s well-being as well as the equity of ecosystem. This review summarises the peculiar characteristics and pathogenic mechanisms utilized by these disease-causing organisms. It features their role in causing infection in the concerned host and emphasizes the need for further research. Understanding the layers of pathogenesis encompassing the concerned infectious microbes will help expand targeted inferences with relation to the cause of the infection. This would strengthen and augment benefit to the host’s health along with the maintenance of ecosystem network, exhibiting host-pathogen interaction cycle. This would be key to discover the layers underlying differential disease severities in response to similar/same pathogen infection.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2024.1374438/fullpathogensprotozoafungiwormshost-pathogen interactionimmune evasion |
| spellingShingle | Richa Shukla Jyoti Soni Jyoti Soni Ashish Kumar Rajesh Pandey Rajesh Pandey Uncovering the diversity of pathogenic invaders: insights into protozoa, fungi, and worm infections Frontiers in Microbiology pathogens protozoa fungi worms host-pathogen interaction immune evasion |
| title | Uncovering the diversity of pathogenic invaders: insights into protozoa, fungi, and worm infections |
| title_full | Uncovering the diversity of pathogenic invaders: insights into protozoa, fungi, and worm infections |
| title_fullStr | Uncovering the diversity of pathogenic invaders: insights into protozoa, fungi, and worm infections |
| title_full_unstemmed | Uncovering the diversity of pathogenic invaders: insights into protozoa, fungi, and worm infections |
| title_short | Uncovering the diversity of pathogenic invaders: insights into protozoa, fungi, and worm infections |
| title_sort | uncovering the diversity of pathogenic invaders insights into protozoa fungi and worm infections |
| topic | pathogens protozoa fungi worms host-pathogen interaction immune evasion |
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