The antifungal medication amphotericin B has been a trusted treatment for severe fungal infections for nearly 70 years since ...

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 ...

Candida auris and Candida albicans are microscopic fungi that cause life-threatening human infections, killing almost a ...

The human commensal fungus Candida albicanscan attach to epithelia or indwelling medical devices and form biofilms, that are highly tolerant to antifungal drugs and can evade the immune response. The ...

Up to three-quarters of all women will experience a genital yeast infection at least once in their lives. Recurrent ...

Candida albicans is a fungus that occurs naturally in the digestive tract of most people. However, the fungus is not always harmless. It can cause mild to severe infections throughout the body. A ...

The opportunistic fungal pathogen, Candida albicans, lives benignly in our bodies, on our skin and mucosa membranes, until it senses we are weak; then it quickly adapts and goes on the offensive. One ...

A new study has uncovered how a surprising player in the immune system, eosinophils, best known for their role in allergies and asthma, also helps protect the body against Candida albicans, one of the ...

An immune pathway has been discovered that prevents a normally harmless fungus from developing into a fatal infection. The King's College London study, published in Nature Microbiology, provides the ...

Candida albicansis a common fungal member of the human microbiota but can also cause infections via expression of virulence factors associated with the yeast-to-hyphae transition. The evolutionary ...

Researchers from the Universitat de València (UV) and the Cedar Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles have partnered to describe a biological mechanism that generates cells which are better equipped to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Candida auris is a fungal yeast that can infect humans. Kateryna Kon/Science Photo Library via Getty Images For the most part, ...