Systemic candidiasis is an opportunistic fungal infection that has been difficult to treat effectively. Research published in a paper in the April edition of Cell Host & Microbe suggests that immune ...

As a result, the Candida cell wall loses its structural stability and collapses, suppressing bacterial survival and proliferation. In fact, experiments using a systemic candidiasis model in mice ...

New research shows that eosinophils, immune cells usually linked to allergies, also play a protective role against Candida infections by using the CD48 receptor to recognize the fungus and release ...

Michail Lionakis, MD, ScD, chief of the fungal pathogenesis section at the National Institutes of Health, is the senior author of this study. Invasive candidiasis is a life-threatening fungal ...

Candida albicans is a yeast that often lives in the human digestive tract and mouth, as well as urinary and reproductive organs. Usually, it doesn't cause disease in its host, but under certain ...

Mucocutaneous candidiasis For vulvovaginal infection, the Guidelines endorse both topical and systemic approaches. The authors list a number of topical antifungal formulations in cream, tablet, and ...

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 ...