Candida albicans is a ubiquitous commensal of the mammalian microbiome and the most
prevalent fungal pathogen of humans. A cell-type transition between yeast and hyphal …

Few among the millions of fungal species fulfill four basic conditions necessary to infect
humans: high temperature tolerance, ability to invade the human host, lysis and absorption …

Abstract Among∼ 5,000,000 fungal species, C. albicans is exceptional in its lifelong
association with humans, either within the gastrointestinal microbiome or as an invasive …

Three common systemic human fungal pathogens—Cryptococcus neoformans, Candida
albicans and Aspergillus fumigatus—have retained all the machinery to engage in sexual …

Phenotypic transitions play critical roles in host adaptation, virulence, and sexual
reproduction in pathogenic fungi. A minority of natural isolates of Candida albicans, which …

Fungi are important pathogens of plants and cause more significant yield losses than
bacteria or viruses. However, bacteria and viruses are more important than fungi as …

ABSTRACT A selection of 43 Candida albicans isolates, chosen to represent the four major
strain clades of the species and also intraclade diversity, was screened for their virulence in …

We typed 165 Candida albicans isolates from 44 different sources by multilocus sequence
typing (MLST) and ABC typing of rRNA genes and determined their homozygosity or …

Candida albicans is a pathobiont that colonizes multiple niches in the body including the
gastrointestinal (GI) tract but is also responsible for both mucosal and systemic infections …

Over the past decade, opportunistic fungal infectious diseases have increased in prevalence
as the population of immunocompromised individuals escalated due to HIV/AIDS and …