Host Response to Fungal Pathogens

Dear Colleagues,

Fungal pathogens have been and continue to be one of the major causes of chronic and life-threatening diseases, posing significant health, social and economic burdens. Combating the fungal diseases caused by opportunistic and primary pathogens requires a holistic understanding of the mechanisms underlying host–pathogen interplay. Antifungal immunity is quite diverse and highly complex. Even though there have been many advances in our knowledge, gaps in immune mechanisms against mycoses remain. The Special Issue, “Host Response to Fungal Pathogens”, aims to present recent advances in our knowledge on aspects of host and fungal interactions. The areas of interest include humoral and cellular host responses to fungal products and virulence factors, cellular and molecular mechanisms of antifungal immunity, immune dysregulation and immunomodulation, fungal immunopathogenesis, vaccine-induced protective mechanisms against fungal infection, and the discovery of immune biomarkers that can be used to stratify disease management and therapeutic efficacy.

Therefore, this Special Issue in Journal of Fungi invites the submission of original research articles, review papers and short communications. Potential topics include (but are not limited to) the following:

• Immunity to pathogens and fungal commensals/pathobionts;
• Innate immune responses;
• Adaptive immune responses;
• Fungal interactions with immune cells and non-immune cells (e.g., epithelial cells, endothelial cells, etc.);
• Vaccine-induced protective immunity;
• Omics-technology-based studies of host–fungus interactions;
• Nutrition immunity to fungal infection;
• Fungal infection models.

Dr. Chiung-Yu Hung
Dr. Brian Peters
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Journal of Fungi is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

• host-pathogen interaction
• protective immunity
• fungal diseases
• fungal virulence
• fungal pathogenesis
• innate immunity to fungal infection
• adaptive immunity to fungal infection