Invasive candidiasis

C Lass-Flörl, SS Kanj, NP Govender… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Invasive candidiasis is an important fungal disease caused by Candida albicans and,
increasingly, non-albicans Candida pathogens. Invasive Candida infections originate most …

Mechanisms of pathogenicity for the emerging fungus Candida auris

MV Horton, AM Holt, JE Nett - Plos Pathogens, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Candida auris recently emerged as an urgent public health threat, causing outbreaks of
invasive infections in healthcare settings throughout the world. This fungal pathogen persists …

The many faces of Candida auris: Phenotypic and strain variation in an emerging pathogen

DJ Santana, G Zhao, TR O'Meara - Plos Pathogens, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Candida auris is an emerging fungal pathogen with unusual evolutionary history—there are
multiple distinct phylogeographic clades showing a near simultaneous transition from a …

Candida auris undergoes adhesin-dependent and -independent cellular aggregation

C Pelletier, S Shaw, S Alsayegh, AJP Brown… - PLoS …, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Candida auris is a fungal pathogen of humans responsible for nosocomial infections with
high mortality rates. High levels of resistance to antifungal drugs and environmental …

Candida auris Infection, a Rapidly Emerging Threat in the Neonatal Intensive Care Units: A Systematic Review

R Sokou, AE Palioura, P Kopanou Taliaka… - Journal of Clinical …, 2024 - mdpi.com
(1) Background: In recent years, a global epidemiological shift in candidemia has been
observed, marked by the emergence of resistant non-albicans Candida species. Candida …

Pathogenesis, Prophylaxis, and Treatment of Candida auris

M Preda, RD Chivu, LM Ditu, O Popescu… - Biomedicines, 2024 - mdpi.com
Candida auris poses a serious threat to infection control and patient care since it can
produce invasive infections that have a high fatality rate, has been linked to outbreaks in …

The adhesin SCF1 mediates Candida auris colonization

A Balakumar, D Bernstein, S Thangamani - Trends in Microbiology, 2024 - cell.com
Candida auris is an emerging human fungal pathogen that can rapidly spread and cause
outbreaks of invasive infections. Santana et al. discovered that a novel surface colonization …

Biofilm-associated metabolism via ERG251 in Candida albicans

L Xiong, N Pereira De Sa, R Zarnowski… - Plos …, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Biofilm formation by the fungal pathogen Candida albicans is the basis for its ability to infect
medical devices. The metabolic gene ERG251 has been identified as a target of biofilm …

Understanding pathogen emergence through the lens of Candida auris

TR O'Meara - Nature Microbiology, 2024 - nature.com
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Vertebrate and invertebrate animal infection models of Candida auris pathogenicity

M Martinez, DA Garsin, MC Lorenz - Current Opinion in Microbiology, 2024 - Elsevier
Candida auris is an emerging fungal pathogen with several concerning qualities. First
recognized in 2009, it has arisen in multiple geographically distinct genomic clades nearly …