Bionized nanoferrite particles alter the course of experimental Cryptococcus neoformans pneumonia

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^aDepartment of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
^bDepartamento de Análises Clínicas e Toxicológicas, Faculdade de Farmácia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
^cDepartment of Radiation Oncology and Molecular Radiation Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD USA
^dDepartamento de Microbiologia, Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
^eDepartment of Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD USA
^fDepartment of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD USA
^gDepartment of Oncology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD USA
^hDepartment of Radiation Oncology and Molecular Radiation Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD USA
ⁱDepartment of Oncology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD USA
^jDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Whiting School of Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218 USA
^kDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, Whiting School of Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218 USA

↵* Livia C. Liporagi Lopes and Preethi Korangath contributed equally to this work as first authors. Author order was determined on the basis that Dr. Liporagi Lopes carried out many of the mouse experiments.
↵# Robert Ivkov and Arturo Casadevall contributed equally to this work as senior authors. Author order was determined on the basis of mutual agreement given that this paper dealt primarily with Cryptococcus neoformans.