What Are the Symptoms of Invasive Candidiasis? People who have other medical conditions are often at risk of getting invasive candidiasis. It can be difficult to tell which symptoms are caused by ...

New research shows that eosinophils, immune cells usually linked to allergies, also play a protective role against Candida ...

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About 80% of people have the fungus Candida albicans in their gut. Although most of the time it persists unnoticed for years causing no health problems, C. albicans can turn into a dangerous microbe ...

A new study has uncovered how a surprising player in the immune system, eosinophils, best known for their role in allergies ...

You might call Candida albicans a shape-shifter: As this fungus grows, it can multiply as single, oval-shaped cells called yeast, or propagate in an elongated form called hypha, consisting of ...

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The yeast fungus Candida albicans not only uses the toxin candidalysin to cause infections, but also to colonize the oral mucosa inconspicuously—but only in finely balanced amounts. Too little toxin ...

Scientists have shown how the yeast Candida albicans can modulate and adapt to low oxygen levels in different body niches to cause infection and to harm the host. Studying adaption to hypoxic or ...