A Novel Virulence Phenotype Rapidly Assesses <italic toggle="yes">Candida</italic> Fungal Pathogenesis in Healthy and Immunocompromised <italic toggle="yes">Caenorhabditis elegans</italic> Hosts

A Novel Virulence Phenotype Rapidly Assesses <italic toggle="yes">Candida</italic> Fungal Pathogenesis in Healthy and Immunocompromised <italic toggle="yes">Caenorhabditis elegans</italic> Hosts

ABSTRACT The yeast Candida albicans is an opportunistic pathogen of humans, meaning that despite commensal interactions with its host, it can transition to a harmful pathogen. While C. albicans is the predominant species isolated in the human gastrointestinal mycobiome and is implicated in fungal in...

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Main Authors: Dorian J. Feistel, Rema Elmostafa, Nancy Nguyen, McKenna Penley, Levi Morran, Meleah A. Hickman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2019-04-01
Series:mSphere
Subjects:
Caenorhabditis elegans
Candida albicans
host fitness
immune function
non-albicans Candida
virulence
Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mSphere.00697-18

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