Antifungal therapy is a central component of patient management for acute and chronic
mycoses. Yet, treatment choices are restricted because of the sparse number of antifungal …

One of the most important questions in microbiology nowadays, is how apparently harmless,
commensal yeasts like Candida spp. can cause a rising number of infections. The …

Candida albicans is a pathogenic yeast that causes mucosal and systematic infections with
high mortality. The absence of facile molecular genetics has been a major impediment to …

Candida albicans is the most common human fungal pathogen (Beck-Sague and Jarvis,
1993). It is normally a harmless commensal organism. However, it is a opportunistic …

Candida species are the most common cause of opportunistic fungal infection worldwide.
Here we report the genome sequences of six Candida species and compare these and …

Abstract The Candida Genome Database (CGD, http://www. candidagenome. org/) is a
freely available online resource that provides gene, protein and sequence information for …

Candida species are the most common causes of fungal infection. Approximately 90% of
infections are caused by five species: Candida albicans, Candida glabrata, Candida …

Fungi cause serious infections in the immunocompromised and debilitated, and the
incidence of invasive mycoses has increased significantly over the last 3 decades. Slow …

The Candida albicans cell wall maintains the structural integrity of the organism in addtion to
providing a physical contact interface with the environment. The major components of the …

Candida albicans is a normal resident of the gastrointestinal tract and also the most
prevalent fungal pathogen of humans. It last shared a common ancestor with the model …