Opportunistic strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiae: a potential risk sold in food products
In recent decades, fungal infections have emerged as an important health problem associated with more people who present deficiencies in the immune system, such as HIV or transplanted patients. Saccharomyces cerevisiae is one of the emerging fungal pathogens with a unique characteristic: its presenc...
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| author | Roberto ePérez-Torrado Amparo eQuerol |
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| description | In recent decades, fungal infections have emerged as an important health problem associated with more people who present deficiencies in the immune system, such as HIV or transplanted patients. Saccharomyces cerevisiae is one of the emerging fungal pathogens with a unique characteristic: its presence in many food products. S. cerevisiae has an impeccably good food safety record compared to other microorganisms like virus, bacteria and some filamentous fungi. However, humans unknowingly and inadvertently ingest large viable populations of S. cerevisiae (home-brewed beer or dietary supplements that contain yeast). In the last few years, researchers have studied the nature of S. cerevisiae strains and the molecular mechanisms related to infections. Here we review the last advance made in this emerging pathogen and we discuss the implication of using this species in food products. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a6f53e8813f045eeb240323cd73414c92022-12-21T23:29:13ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Microbiology1664-302X2016-01-01610.3389/fmicb.2015.01522172618Opportunistic strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiae: a potential risk sold in food productsRoberto ePérez-Torrado0Amparo eQuerol1CSICCSICIn recent decades, fungal infections have emerged as an important health problem associated with more people who present deficiencies in the immune system, such as HIV or transplanted patients. Saccharomyces cerevisiae is one of the emerging fungal pathogens with a unique characteristic: its presence in many food products. S. cerevisiae has an impeccably good food safety record compared to other microorganisms like virus, bacteria and some filamentous fungi. However, humans unknowingly and inadvertently ingest large viable populations of S. cerevisiae (home-brewed beer or dietary supplements that contain yeast). In the last few years, researchers have studied the nature of S. cerevisiae strains and the molecular mechanisms related to infections. Here we review the last advance made in this emerging pathogen and we discuss the implication of using this species in food products.http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fmicb.2015.01522/fullFoodInfectionyeastS. cerevisiaeopportunistic |
| spellingShingle | Roberto ePérez-Torrado Amparo eQuerol Opportunistic strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiae: a potential risk sold in food products Frontiers in Microbiology Food Infection yeast S. cerevisiae opportunistic |
| title | Opportunistic strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiae: a potential risk sold in food products |
| title_full | Opportunistic strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiae: a potential risk sold in food products |
| title_fullStr | Opportunistic strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiae: a potential risk sold in food products |
| title_full_unstemmed | Opportunistic strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiae: a potential risk sold in food products |
| title_short | Opportunistic strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiae: a potential risk sold in food products |
| title_sort | opportunistic strains of saccharomyces cerevisiae a potential risk sold in food products |
| topic | Food Infection yeast S. cerevisiae opportunistic |
| url | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fmicb.2015.01522/full |
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