Preface Contributors Section 1 - Nasal Cavity 1. Fungal Sinusitis; Tobias E. Rodriguez, Jack R. Harkema, and Gary B. Huffnagle Section 2 - Oral Cavity 2. Innate Defense Mechanisms in Oral Candidiasis; Anna Dongari-Bagtzoglou 3. Humoral Factors in the Protection of the Oral Cavity against Candidiasis; Stephen J. Challacombe, Durdana Rahman, Mukesh Mistry, and Julian A. Naglik 4. Oral Candidiasis: Clinical Manifestations and Cellular Adaptive Host Responses; Robert B. Ashman and Camile S. Farah Section 3 - Lungs 5. The Innate and Adaptive Immune Response to Pulmonary Histoplasma capsulatum Infection; George S. Deepe, Jr. 6. Lung Immunity to Blastomyces dermatitidis Infection; Marcel Wuthrich and Bruce S. Klein 7. Innate Immunity in the Lungs to Cryptococcal Infection; Kazuyoshi Kawakami 8. Pulmonary Cell-Mediated Immunity (CMI) to Cryptococcus neoformans; Dennis M. Lindell and Gary B. Huffnagle 9. Antibody-Mediated Immunity to Fungi in the Lungs; Marta Feldmesser and Arturo Casadevall 10. Pulmonary Paracoccidioidomycosis; Vera L.G. Calich and Maria H.S.L. Blotta 11. The Innate and Acquired Pulmonary Immune Response to Aspergillus fumigatus; Jane M. Schuh and Cory M. Hogaboam 12. Fungal Hypersensitivity in the Lungs; Viswanath P. Kurup and Alan P. Knutsen 13. Immunology of Pulmonary Pneumocystis Infection: Cell-Mediated Immunity; Judd E. Shellito and James M. Beck 14. Antibody-Mediated Immunity to Pneumocystis in the Lungs; Beth A. Garvy and Francis Gigliotti Section 4 - Gastrointestinal Tract 15. Innate and Adaptive Immunity against Candida species infections in the Gastrointestinal Tract; Robert D. Wagner Section 5 - Vaginal Tract 16. Innate and Adaptive Cell-Mediated Immunity against Vaginal Candidiasis; Paul L. Fidel Jr. 17. The Role of Humoral Immunity against Vaginal Candida Infection; Flavia De Bernardis, Maria Boccanera, and AntonioCassone Section 6 - Blood 18. Role of Complement in Fungal Infections; Thomas R. Kozel 19. Innate and Adaptive Immunity to Systemic Candida albicans Infection; Luigina Romani 20. Interactions of Fungi with Endothellal Cells; Scott G. Filler and Donald C. Sheppard Section 7 - Skin 21. Immunology of Cutaneous Candidiasis; Srividya Srinivasan, David K. Wagner, and Peter S. Sohnle 22. Immune Surveillance against Dermatophyte Infection; Tetsuya Koga 23. Immune Surveillance against Sporothrix schenckii infection; Takeshi Uenotsuchi, Tetsuo Matsuda, Masutaka Furue, and Tetsuya Koga Section 8 - Central Nervous System 24. Innate and Acquired Immunity in Cryptococcus neoformans Infections of the Central Nervous System; Kent Buchanan Index