The polymorphic fungus Candida albicans is a member of the normal human microbiome. In
most individuals, C. albicans resides as a lifelong, harmless commensal. Under certain …

Antifungal therapy is a central component of patient management for acute and chronic
mycoses. Yet, treatment choices are restricted because of the sparse number of antifungal …

Stress (biotic or abiotic) is an unfavourable condition for an organism including fungus. To
overcome stress, organism expresses heat‐shock proteins (Hsps) or chaperons to perform …

Heat shock proteins (HSPs) are constitutively expressed under physiological conditions in
most organisms but their expression can significantly enhance in response to four types of …

Candida is the most implicated fungal pathogen in the clinical setting. Several factors play
important roles in the pathogenesis of Candida spp. Multiple transcriptional circuits …

Candida albicans is a fungal pathogen that can form biofilms on medical devices and host
tissue, resulting in serious, life-threatening infections. These fungal biofilms are inherently …

Only few Candida species, eg, Candida albicans, Candida glabrata, Candida dubliniensis,
and Candida parapsilosis, are successful colonizers of a human host. Under certain …

Candida albicans, one of the pathogenic Candida species, causes high mortality rate in
immunocompromised and high-risk surgical patients. In the last decade, only one new class …

Persister cells are a small subpopulation within fungal biofilms that are highly resistant to
high concentrations of antifungals and therefore most likely contribute to the resistance and …

There is currently increasing concern about the relation between microbial infections and
cancer. More and more studies support the view that there is an association, above all, when …