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Record W4409455451 · doi:10.1084/jem.20241215

Human immunity to fungal infections

2025· review· en· W4409455451 on OpenAlexafffund
Donald C. Vinh

Bibliographic record

VenueThe Journal of Experimental Medicine · 2025
Typereview
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicFungal Infections and Studies
Canadian institutionsMcGill UniversityMcGill University Health Centre
FundersFonds de Recherche du Québec - SantéModernaCanadian Institutes of Health ResearchMerck CanadaMcGill University Health CentrePublic Health AgencyPublic Health Agency of CanadaMcGill University
KeywordsBiologyImmunityImmunologyDiseaseImmune systemMedicine

Abstract

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Fungi increasingly threaten health globally. Mycoses range from life-threatening, often iatrogenic conditions, to enigmatic syndromes occurring without apparent immunosuppression. Despite some recent advances in antifungal drug development, complementary therapeutic strategies are essential for addressing these opportunistic pathogens. One promising avenue is leveraging host immunity to combat fungal infections; this necessitates deeper understanding of the molecular immunology of human fungal susceptibility to differentiate beneficial versus harmful immunopathological responses. Investigating human models of fungal diseases in natural settings, particularly through genetic immunodeficiencies and ethnographic-specific genetic vulnerabilities, reveals crucial immune pathways essential for fighting various yeasts and molds. This review highlights the diversity in intrinsic fungal susceptibility across individuals and populations, through genetic- and autoantibody-mediated processes, complementing previous principles learned from animal studies and iatrogenic contexts. Improved understanding of human immunity to fungal diseases will facilitate the development of host-directed immunotherapies and targeted public health interventions, paving the way for precision medicine in fungal disease management.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: Review
Teacher disagreement score0.005
Threshold uncertainty score0.016

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0000.001
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0050.002

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.080
GPT teacher head0.451
Teacher spread0.371 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreReview

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2025
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