M. T. Cushion

This study isolates and characterizes extracellular vesicles from Pneumocystis-infected rats, showing they impair fungal viability but are not required for macrophage function.

This paper identifies a novel mechanism of antigenic variation in Pneumocystis jirovecii involving DNA triplex-mediated recombination of subtelomeric genes.

The paper sequenced genomes of Pneumocystis species from different mammals to study host specificity and evolutionary adaptations, revealing insights into the emergence of the human pathogen P. jirovecii.

This study shows female mice have higher Pneumocystis murina infection burdens than males at later time points across three strains.