An obituary for the late Hildegard L. C. Tristram, Honorary Professor at University of Freiburg im Breisgau

Prof. Dr. Joseph Vincent De Sa, whom we called Prof. Joe De Sa, was born on August 21,1915, in Bombay, India, where he also died on November 3, 1989 (15 years ago). To us within the international community of neurootologists and to all his friends, students , and contemporaneous ear, nose, and throat CENT) specialists in India, he was a very great communicator in the fields of both otology and ...

aspergillus spp. are ubiquitous saprophytic fungi that cause a variety of diseases, ranging from hypersensitivity reactions to flulike pneumonia and life-threatening invasive aspergillosis. as the lung is the primary site of initial infection with airborne conidia, we investigated the innate immune responses of bronchial epithelial cells against different forms of aspergillus spp.