Amir Arastehfar

13PUBLICATIONS
31CO-AUTHORS
Medical infection agents (incl. prions)Host-parasite interactionsCancer geneticsPredictive and prognostic markersLivestock cloning
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Publications (13)

|Sep 01, 2026
Outbreaks of fluconazole-resistant Candida parapsilosis are driven by low-biofilm-producing isolates that emerge under host selection.

|Mar 23, 2026
Multidimensional assessment of in-host fitness costs of echinocandin resistance in the opportunistic fungal pathogen Candida glabrata reveals the niche-specific requirement for FKS1 and FKS2 during infection and gut colonization.

Amir Arastehfar, Farnaz Daneshnia, Hrant Hovhannisyan

|Feb 13, 2026
Profound cell wall remodeling in Candida parapsilosis during systemic infection confers simultaneous tolerance to echinocandins and host immunity.

Farnaz Daneshnia, Liuyang Cai, Deepika Gunasekaran

|Mar 19, 2024
Echinocandin persistence directly impacts the evolution of resistance and survival of the pathogenic fungus Candida glabrata.

Amir Arastehfar, Farnaz Daneshnia, Daniel J Floyd

|Sep 29, 2023
Overlooked Candida glabrata petites are echinocandin tolerant, induce host inflammatory responses, and display poor in vivo fitness.

Amir Arastehfar, Farnaz Daneshnia, Hrant Hovhannisyan

|Sep 06, 2022
Determinants of fluconazole resistance and echinocandin tolerance in C. parapsilosis isolates causing a large clonal candidemia outbreak among COVID-19 patients in a Brazilian ICU.

Farnaz Daneshnia, João N de Almeida Júnior, Amir Arastehfar

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Macit Ilkit

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Farnaz Daneshnia

4 joint publications

David S Perlin

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