Cyclic strain of Poly (methyl methacrylate) surfaces triggered the pathogenicity of Candida albicans

C Montoya, J Kurylec, A Ossa, S Orrego - Acta Biomaterialia, 2023 - Elsevier
albicans switched its morphology from yeast to hyphae and expressed virulent genes. A …
by this novel factor driving the pathogenesis of Candida. Denture stomatitis is a major oral …

Patterns recovered in phylogenomic analysis of Candida auris and close relatives implicate broad environmental flexibility in Candida/Clavispora clade yeasts

K Schutz, T Melie, SD Smith… - Microbial …, 2024 - microbiologyresearch.org
… trajectories that shape how fungi interact with … virulence traits, which likely evolve due
to selection pressure present during infection [23]. This could represent a longer co-evolutionary

Two-speed genome evolution drives pathogenicity in fungal pathogens of animals

T Wacker, N Helmstetter, D Wilson… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Pathogenicity in vertebrates by species of Batrachochytrium is thought to have emerged …
by flanking repetitive elements enriched around pathogenicity genes, genes with signatures of …

Frequent transitions in mating-type locus chromosomal organization in Malassezia and early steps in sexual reproduction

MA Coelho, G Ianiri, M David-Palma… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
… This change in morphology has been linked to virulence in several fungal species (21),
and has been well … neoformans, and Candida albicans and is known to be associated with …

The origin of human pathogenicity and biological interactions in Chaetothyriales

Y Quan, S Deng, FX Prenafeta-Boldủ, VE Mayer… - Fungal Diversity, 2024 - Springer
… Their asexual forms in culture consist of simple conidial chains and morphologically went
unrecognized as Cladophialophora species, a genus of human opportunists in …

Virulence evolution of pathogens that can grow in reservoir environments

A Pandey, N Mideo, TG Platt - The American Naturalist, 2022 - journals.uchicago.edu
… like Candida albicans and Streptococcus pneumoniae, the etiological agents of candidiasis
… case 4b, we fix the shape of transmission-virulence and shedding-virulence trade-offs and …

The evolution of virulence in Pseudomonas aeruginosa during chronic wound infection

J Vanderwoude, D Fleming, S Azimi… - … of the Royal …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
… evolves in murine chronic wounds, and whether the evolution of virulence was reproducible.
We also ascertained morphological diversity and phenotypic changes after 42 days and ten …

Candida auris undergoes adhesin-dependent and -independent cellular aggregation

C Pelletier, S Shaw, S Alsayegh, AJP Brown… - PLoS …, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Candida species, such as C. albicans, virulence can be influenced by cellular morphology […
to investigate whether virulence was impacted by the aggregation morphology or was isolate-…

Metabolic profiling of Candida clinical isolates of different species and infection sources

JC Oliver, L Laghi, C Parolin, C Foschi, A Marangoni… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
… characterize clinical isolates of Candida spp. by proteomics (… Candida species, source of
infection and different virulence … by phenotypic traits including morphology, colony appearance …

Pseudohyphal growth of the emerging pathogen Candida auris is triggered by genotoxic stress through the S phase checkpoint

G Bravo Ruiz, ZK Ross, NAR Gow, A Lorenz - Msphere, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
… for full virulence in many polymorphic fungal pathogens, such as Candida albicans. In the …
During infection of human patients, fungi are able to change cell shape from ellipsoidal yeast