Almost everyone carries Candida albicans. The yeast colonizes human mucous membranes—for example, the oral mucosa and the ...

Candida auris cases more than doubled from 2022 to 2024, CDC reports. How much of the rise in this drug-resistant fungus is ...

Candida auris infections are rapidly rising across the U.S., raising concerns over drug resistance, hospital spread, and ...

A dangerous, drug-resistant fungus that can spread inside hospitals and nursing homes is drawing renewed attention from Oklahoma health officials as case counts ...

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Most women will probably get a yeast infection at some point. Globally, this has happened to at least 75 per cent of women in their lifetimes. As a specialist in clinical health, health systems and ...

Candida auris can “colonize” the skin and spread easily to surfaces.

About 80% of people have the fungus Candida albicans in their gut. Although most of the time it persists unnoticed for years, causing no health problems, C. albicans can turn into a dangerous microbe ...

The yeast fungus Candida albicans not only uses the toxin candidalysin to cause infections, but also to colonize the oral mucosa inconspicuously—but only in finely balanced amounts. Too little toxin ...

Researchers at the University of Sheffield have discovered how Candida fungi suppress the immune system, a breakthrough that ...