Fungi must meet four criteria to infect humans: growth at human body temperatures,
circumvention or penetration of surface barriers, lysis and absorption of tissue, and …

Increased agricultural activities driven by rising food demand have led to environmental
problems mostly arising from the high levels of external inputs and resources that are …

Secretory immunoglobulin A (sIgA) plays an important role in gut barrier protection by
shaping the resident microbiota community, restricting the growth of bacterial pathogens and …

Stress (biotic or abiotic) is an unfavourable condition for an organism including fungus. To
overcome stress, organism expresses heat‐shock proteins (Hsps) or chaperons to perform …

Candida is the most implicated fungal pathogen in the clinical setting. Several factors play
important roles in the pathogenesis of Candida spp. Multiple transcriptional circuits …

The fungal component of the human gut microbiota has been neglected for long time due to
the low relative abundance of fungi with respect to bacteria, and only recently few reports …

Background Candida albicans is the most common pathogenic fungus isolated in
bloodstream infections in hospitalized patients, and candidiasis represents the fourth most …

The opportunistic fungal pathogen Candida albicans is capable of adhering to the oral
mucosa despite forces created by salivary flow. Although many fungal adhesion proteins …

Candida albicans is a major fungal pathogen of humans. This yeast is carried by many
individuals as a harmless commensal, but when immune defences are perturbed it causes …

During their life cycles, pathogens have to adapt to many biotic and abiotic environmental
stresses to maximize their overall fitness. Morphological transitions are one of the least …