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ArticleScientific reports2024

Detection of fungal sequences in human brain: rDNA locus amplification and deep sequencing.

Rodrigo Leitao, Iam Ut Wan, Harry Chown, Thomas J Williams, Matthew C Fisher, Johanna Rhodes

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Article in Scientific reports, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Rodrigo Leitao *MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, W12 0BZ, UK. r.monteirinho-leitao@imperial.ac.uk.
Iam Ut Wan *MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, W12 0BZ, UK.
Harry ChownMRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, W12 0BZ, UK.
Thomas J WilliamsDepartment of Infectious Disease, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, UK.
Matthew C FisherMRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, W12 0BZ, UK.
Johanna RhodesDepartment of Medical Microbiology, Radboudumc, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

Funding

Cystic Fibrosis Trust SRC015Medical Research Council MR/R015600/1Medical Research Council MR/X020258/1Natural Environment Research Council NE/X00547X/1Wellcome Trust 219551/Z/19/ZWellcome Trust PSN105
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The aetiology of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and Parkinson's disease (PD) are unknown and tend to manifest at a late stage in life; even though these neurodegenerative diseases are caused by different affected proteins, they are both characterized by neuroinflammation. Links between bacterial and viral infection and AD/PD has been suggested in several studies, however, few have attempted to establish a link between fungal infection and AD/PD. In this study we adopted a nanopore-based sequencing approach to characterise the presence or absence of fungal genera in both human brain tissue and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). We observed the presence of small fungal burden DNA in two AD brains and a control case (extensive amyloid angiopathy). This approach would be well-placed to investigate potential links between microbial infection and neurodegenerative disease.

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BrainDNA, FungalHigh-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingParkinson DiseaseAgedAlzheimer DiseaseDNA, RibosomalFemaleFungiHumansMaleDNA, FungalDNA, Ribosomal

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PMID39738312
PMCPMC11685392

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