Mixed-species biofilms of Candida albicans and Staphylococcus aureus pose a significant
clinical challenge due to their resistance to the human immune system and antimicrobial …

A range of attributes determines the virulence of human pathogens. During interactions with
their hosts, pathogenic microbes often undergo transitions between distinct stages, and the …

The release of fungal cells following macrophage phagocytosis, called non-lytic expulsion,
is reported for several fungal pathogens. On one hand, non-lytic expulsion may benefit the …

Background Elucidation of the communal behavior of microbes in mixed species biofilms
may have a major impact on understanding infectious diseases and for the therapeutics …

Inter-kingdom and interspecies interactions are ubiquitous in nature and are important for
the survival of species and ecological balance. The investigation of microbe-microbe …

The opportunistic yeast Candida albicans and lactic acid bacteria Enterococcus faecalis are
frequently co-isolated from various infection sites on the human body, suggesting a common …

The origin of altruism is a fundamental problem in evolution, and the maintenance of
biodiversity is a fundamental problem in ecology. These two problems combine with the …

Biofilm formation on biotic and abiotic surfaces is an important virulence factor of pathogenic
filamentous fungi and yeasts and contributes to antifungal resistance as well as resistance to …

Microbe-microbe interactions can strongly influence growth and biofilm formation kinetics.
For Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Candida albicans, which are found together in diverse …

In order to describe biological colonies with a conspicuous hierarchical structure, a time-and
space-discrete model for the growth of a rapidly saturating local biological population N (x, t) …