Candida auris permanently colonizes patients by using chitin to trigger a skin immune response that suppresses antifungal ...

A Deadly, Drug-Resistant Fungus Threatens People Around the World, Scientists Warn ...

According to a new study, a drug-resistant fungus that can cause serious infections may have a new way to disrupt the body’s ...

Research on mice has shown that a deadly yeast superbug resists treatment by hiding in the hair follicles of colonized skin.

An immune pathway has been discovered that prevents a normally harmless fungus from developing into a fatal infection. The ...

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 ...

An immune pathway has been discovered which prevents a normally harmless fungus developing into a fatal infection.

Candida albicans is a species of yeast — a single-celled fungus — that’s a normal part of the microbes that live in your gastrointestinal tract. Small amounts of the yeast also live in various warm, ...

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 ...

You might call Candida albicans a shape-shifter: As this fungus grows, it can multiply as single, oval-shaped cells called yeast, or propagate in an elongated form called hypha, consisting of ...

Since its discovery in Japan in 2009, a deadly fungus has emerged in hospitals around the world. The pathogen, known as ...