Professor, Medicine, University Massachusetts Medical School
Infectious Disease
Dr. Stuart M. Levitz, MD
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Stuart Levitz is an expert in the field of Infectious Disease. He went to NYU School of Medicine. Stuart Levitz has written publications. He has 101 publications published with PubMed. The lastest publication is: 'Recent advances in cryptococcosis, candidiasis and coccidioidomycosis complicating HIV infection.' Dr. Stuart M. Levitz accepts all Medicare patients.
Publications
- Chitin Recognition via Chitotriosidase Promotes Pathologic Type-2 Helper T Cell Responses to Cryptococcal Infection.
- Recognition of Aspergillus fumigatus hyphae by human plasmacytoid dendritic cells is mediated by dectin-2 and results in formation of extracellular traps.
- Exploiting fungal cell wall components in vaccines.
- Multifocal Rhizopus microsporus lung infection following brush clearing.
- Caspase-8 Modulates Dectin-1 and Complement Receptor 3-Driven IL-1β Production in Response to β-Glucans and the Fungal Pathogen, Candida albicans.
- Spectrum and Mechanisms of Inflammasome Activation by Chitosan.
- Novel Strategies to Enhance Vaccine Immunity against Coccidioidomycosis.
- Characterization and optimization of the glucan particle-based vaccine platform.
- Innate sensing of chitin and chitosan.
- Phomopsis bougainvilleicola Pre-patellar Bursitis in a Renal Transplant Recipient.
- Relative contributions of dectin-1 and complement to immune responses to particulate β-glucans.
- Beyond Empiricism: Informing Vaccine Development through Innate Immunity Research.
- Innate Recognition of Cell Wall ?-Glucans Drives Invariant Natural Killer T Cell Responses against Fungi.
- A Chronological History of the International Conference on Cryptococcus and Cryptococcosis (ICCC), an Invaluable Forum for Growth of the Cryptococcal Research Field an...
- Chitosan but not chitin activates the inflammasome by a mechanism dependent upon phagocytosis.
- A Nonredundant Role for Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cells in Host Defense against the Human Fungal Pathogen Aspergillus fumigatus.
- Contributions of the MyD88-Dependent Receptors IL-18R, IL-1R, and TLR9 to Host Defenses following Pulmonary Challenge with Cryptococcus neoformans.
- Dynamic Virulence: Real-Time Assessment of Intracellular Pathogenesis Links Cryptococcus neoformans Phenotype with Clinical Outcome.
- Linkage specificity and role of properdin in activation of the alternative complement pathway by fungal glycans.
- Glucuronoxylomannan, galactoxylomannan, and mannoprotein occupy spatially separate and discrete regions in the capsule of Cryptococcus neoformans.
- Innate recognition of fungal cell walls.
- Robust Stimulation of Humoral and Cellular Immune Responses following Vaccination with Antigen-Loaded beta-Glucan Particles.
- Distinct patterns of dendritic cell cytokine release stimulated by fungal beta-glucans and toll-like receptor agonists.
- Th17 cells bounce off the fungal wall.
- Toll-like receptor 4 polymorphisms and aspergillosis.
- Isolation and purification of antigenic components of Cryptococcus.
- Cryptococcus neoformans enters the endolysosomal pathway of dendritic cells and is killed by lysosomal components.
- Role of the mannose receptor in a murine model of Cryptococcus neoformans infection.
- Toll-like receptor 9-dependent immune activation by unmethylated CpG motifs in Aspergillus fumigatus DNA.
- Cooperative stimulation of dendritic cells by Cryptococcus neoformans mannoproteins and CpG oligodeoxynucleotides.
- Contribution of glycosylation to T cell responses stimulated by recombinant Cryptococcus neoformans mannoprotein.
- Effect of differential N-linked and O-linked mannosylation on recognition of fungal antigens by dendritic cells.
- Direct inhibition of T-cell responses by the Cryptococcus capsular polysaccharide glucuronoxylomannan.
- In vivo role of dendritic cells in a murine model of pulmonary cryptococcosis.
- Cryptococcus neoformans glycoantigens are captured by multiple lectin receptors and presented by dendritic cells.
- Receptor-mediated clearance of Cryptococcus neoformans capsular polysaccharide in vivo.
- A model vaccine exploiting fungal mannosylation to increase antigen immunogenicity.
- A chitin synthase and its regulator protein are critical for chitosan production and growth of the fungal pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans.
- Opsonic requirements for dendritic cell-mediated responses to Cryptococcus neoformans.
- KRE5 gene null mutant strains of Candida albicans are avirulent and have altered cell wall composition and hypha formation properties.
- Involvement of CD14, toll-like receptors 2 and 4, and MyD88 in the host response to the fungal pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans in vivo.
- The contribution of the Toll-like/IL-1 receptor superfamily to innate and adaptive immunity to fungal pathogens in vivo.
- Protective efficacy of antigenic fractions in mouse models of cryptococcosis.
- The antifungal drug amphotericin B promotes inflammatory cytokine release by a Toll-like receptor- and CD14-dependent mechanism.
- Antigenic and biological characteristics of mutant strains of Cryptococcus neoformans lacking capsular O acetylation or xylosyl side chains.
- Toll-like receptor (TLR) signaling in response to Aspergillus fumigatus.
- Purification and characterization of a second immunoreactive mannoprotein from Cryptococcus neoformans that stimulates T-Cell responses.
- Inhibition of mitogen-activated protein kinase signaling by chloroquine.
- Optimal T cell responses to Cryptococcus neoformans mannoprotein are dependent on recognition of conjugated carbohydrates by mannose receptors.
- Fungal Vaccines and Immunotherapeutics.
- A Population of Langerin-Positive Dendritic Cells in Murine Peyer's Patches Involved in Sampling β-Glucan Microparticles.
- Tuberculosis of the foot. A diagnostic challenge.
- Longitudinal epiphyseal bracket: associated foot deformities with implications for treatment.
- Heterozygous germline ATM mutations do not contribute to radiation-associated malignancies after Hodgkin's disease.
- Inactivating mutations in an SH2 domain-encoding gene in X-linked lymphoproliferative syndrome.
- Prevalence of germline truncating mutations in ATM in women with a second breast cancer after radiation therapy for a contralateral tumor.
- Recent advances in cryptococcosis, candidiasis and coccidioidomycosis complicating HIV infection.
- Phenotypic and functional characterization of human lymphocytes activated by interleukin-2 to directly inhibit growth of Cryptococcus neoformans in vitro.
- The effect of infection with human immunodeficiency virus on the anticryptococcal activity of lymphocytes and monocytes.
- Mechanisms of inhibition of Cryptococcus neoformans by human lymphocytes.
- A simplified new assay for assessment of fungal cell damage with the tetrazolium dye, (2,3)-bis-(2-methoxy-4-nitro-5-sulphenyl)-(2H)-tetrazolium-5-carboxanil ide (XTT).
- Direct antimicrobial activity of T cells.
- Changing patterns of aspergillosis infections.
- In vivo bronchoalveolar macrophage defense against Rhizopus oryzae and Aspergillus fumigatus.
- Killing of Aspergillus fumigatus spores and Candida albicans yeast phase by the iron-hydrogen peroxide-iodide cytotoxic system: comparison with the myeloperoxidase-hyd...
- Radioresistance of culture-induced augmented natural killer-like activity.
- In vitro killing of spores and hyphae of Aspergillus fumigatus and Rhizopus oryzae by rabbit neutrophil cationic peptides and bronchoalveolar macrophages.
- Pontine pure motor hemiparesis due to meningovascular syphilis in human immunodeficiency virus-positive patients.
- Minorities in the Journal's advertisements.
- Cytosolic calcium changes in individual neutrophils stimulated by opsonized and unopsonized Candida albicans hyphae.
- Histatins, a novel family of histidine-rich proteins in human parotid secretion. Isolation, characterization, primary structure, and fungistatic effects on Candida alb...
- Differential stimulation of murine resident peritoneal cells by selectively opsonized encapsulated and acapsular Cryptococcus neoformans.
- A rapid fluorescent assay to distinguish attached from phagocytized yeast particles.
- Factitious dermatosis masquerading as recurrent herpes zoster.
- Mechanisms of resistance of Aspergillus fumigatus Conidia to killing by neutrophils in vitro.
- Effect of cilofungin (LY121019), a fungal cell wall synthesis inhibitor, on interactions of Candida albicans with human neutrophils.
- Activation of C3 and binding to Aspergillus fumigatus conidia and hyphae.
- Aspergillosis.
- Paradoxical role of capsule in murine bronchoalveolar macrophage-mediated killing of Cryptococcus neoformans.
- A rapid colorimetric assay of fungal viability with the tetrazolium salt MTT.
- Human neutrophil degranulation stimulated by Aspergillus fumigatus.
- Inhibition and killing of fungi by the polyamine oxidase-polyamine system. Antifungal activity of the PAO-polyamine system.
- Growth inhibition of Cryptococcus neoformans by cultured human monocytes: role of the capsule, opsonins, the culture surface, and cytokines.
- Killing of Cryptococcus neoformans by human peripheral blood mononuclear cells stimulated in culture.
- Binding of Cryptococcus neoformans by human cultured macrophages. Requirements for multiple complement receptors and actin.
- Activation of human peripheral blood mononuclear cells by interleukin-2 and granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor to inhibit Cryptococcus neoformans.
- Anticandidal activity of major human salivary histatins.
- The ecology of Cryptococcus neoformans and the epidemiology of cryptococcosis.
- Biological activity of interleukin-2 bound to Candida albicans.
- Aspergillosis and marijuana.
- Overview of host defenses in fungal infections.
- Invasive infections due to Candida krusei: report of ten cases of fungemia that include three cases of endophthalmitis.
- Binding of unopsonized Cryptococcus neoformans by human bronchoalveolar macrophages: inhibition by a large-molecular-size serum component.
- Mechanisms of host defence against fungal infection.
- HIV-1 envelope protein (gp120) inhibits the activity of human bronchoalveolar macrophages against Cryptococcus neoformans.
- Host-fungal interactions in HIV infection.
- Improvement in CD4+ cell counts despite persistently detectable HIV load.
- Chloroquine induces human mononuclear phagocytes to inhibit and kill Cryptococcus neoformans by a mechanism independent of iron deprivation.
- Lymphoproliferation and cytokine profiles in human peripheral blood mononuclear cells stimulated by Cryptococcus neoformans.
- Mechanisms of impaired anticryptococcal activity of monocytes from donors infected with human immunodeficiency virus.
Schools
New York University
University Hospital
Boston University
Doctors Specialties
- Infectious Disease Medicine
- Infectious Disease
Accepted Insurances
- Aetna HMO
- Choice Plus POS II
- Cigna HMO
- Cigna PPO
- Great West Healthcare-Cigna PPO
- LocalPlus
- Open Access Plus
- First Health (Coventry Health Care) PPO
- MultiPlan PPO
- PHCS Network PPO
- Tufts PPO
- Choice Plus POS
- Navigate HMO
- Navigate POS
- Options PPO
Education
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Boston University Medical Center -
NYU School of Medicine
Hospital
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UMass Memorial Medical Center
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| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1982681615 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | LEVITZ |
| First Name Of The Provider | STUART |
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