Systemic candidiasis is an opportunistic fungal infection that has been difficult to treat effectively. Research published in ...

Candidemia is an infrequent but severe complication after solid organ transplantation associated with a substantial mortality burden.

Born weighing only 670 grams, this male baby survived a fungal bloodstream infection, lung disease, and more. Doctors at ...

Eating food on banana leaves provides health benefits because the leaf contains a waxy coating rich in antioxidants ...

Candida albicans is a type of yeast that naturally lives in the mouth, digestive tract, skin, and other moist areas of the body. Its harmless when kept in check by the immune system, but when it grows ...

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The candida cleanse (or candida diet) has become a popular fad diet. This diet aims to lower the amount of candida fungi in the body. Candida fungi can cause infections such as vaginal yeast ...

About 80% of people have the fungus Candida albicans in their gut. Although most of the time it persists unnoticed for years causing no health problems, C. albicans can turn into a dangerous microbe ...

A research team led by the Leibniz-HKI in Jena has uncovered a new way in which the yeast Candida albicans can damage human tissue. In a study published in Nature Communications, the scientists ...

Oral thrush is a fungal infection of the mouth, where a fungus that lives in the oral cavity overgrows and causes white lesions. There are some foods to avoid with oral thrush, so make sure you know ...

An estimated 1.5 million deaths worldwide are attributed to invasive fungal diseases annually. 5 Of these, hospital-acquired infections—most frequently caused by species of Candida—account for around ...