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Author Spotlight: Enhancing Candida albicans Detection in Catheter Infections Using Fluorescent Protein Tagging
Published on: March 22, 2024
Candida albicans dwelling in the mammalian gut
1Interdisciplinary Center for Clinical Research, University Hospital Würzburg, Germany; Institute for Molecular Infection Biology, University Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany.
Abstract:
The yeast Candida albicans inhabits the gastrointestinal tract of most healthy adults, seemingly living there as a harmless commensal. The fungus on occasion disseminates from the gut to other internal organs causing life-threatening infections. Here, I review some of the most exciting advances in the study of gut colonization by C. albicans in the last few years. These developments highlight the close interplay between C. albicans and cohabiting microbes, the responses that commensal fungi elicit from the mammalian host, and the genetic determinants that allow the fungus to thrive in such a crowded and demanding ecosystem.
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