Candida Albicans

  • Biologist Discovers One Pathogen Species Can Produce Two Distinct Biofilms
    Many medical devices, ranging from artificial hip joints to dentures and catheters, become sites for unwelcome guests -- complex communities of microbial pathogens called biofilms that are resistant to the human immune system and antibiotics, thus proving a serious threat ...More
    August 3, 2011
    Posted in News, Infections & Pathogens
  • Taking Mating Cues from Many Sources, Pathogen Adapts to Thrive and Infect
    The success of a fungal pathogen in becoming a persistent and opportunistic source of infection in human beings may be due to a mating strategy that can best be described as "don't be too choosy." A new Brown University study finds that Candida albicans will respond to the ...More
    January 25, 2011
    Posted in News
  • Lemongrass Essential Oil Shown to be Effective Against Candida albicans
    Use of essential oils for controlling Candida albicans growth has gained significance due to the resistance acquired by pathogens toward a number of widely used drugs. Tyagi and Malik (2010) sought to test the antifungal activity of selected essential oils against Candida ...More
    November 12, 2010
    Posted in News
  • Tracking Down Pathogenic Yeasts
    More than half of all people are hosts to Candida albicans in their bodies. This species might be located on their skin or mucous membranes or in the intestines – frequently without causing any symptoms. However, it can be dangerous to patients whose immunological system ...More
    September 28, 2010
    Posted in News
  • Research Team Uncovers Key to Stopping the Growth of Thrush
    A University of Oklahoma research team has uncovered a key to arresting the growth of thrush—a type of oral yeast infection that sickens patients with compromised immune systems, diabetes and newborns as well as healthy individuals, who may contract the disease following ...More
    September 24, 2010
    Posted in News
  • Fighting Fungal Infections With Bacteria
    A bacterial pathogen can communicate with yeast to block the development of drug-resistant yeast infections, say Irish scientists writing in the May issue of Microbiology. The research could be a step towards new strategies to prevent hospital-acquired infections associated ...More
    May 1, 2010
    Posted in News, Disinfection & Sterilization
  • Infectious Disease Specialists Surveyed on What Drives Prescribing in Severe Candida Infections in the Hospital Setting
    Arlington Medical Resources (AMR), a provider of market intelligence for the pharmaceutical and diagnostic imaging industries, finds that the most important drug attributes surveyed infectious disease specialists seek in a drug to treat severe Candida infections in the ...More
    March 4, 2010
    Posted in News
  • New Compounds May Control Deadly Fungal Infections
    An estimated 25,000 Americans develop severe fungal infections each year, leading to 10,000 deaths despite the use of anti-fungal drugs. The associated cost to the U.S. healthcare system has been estimated at $1 billion a year. Now two Syracuse University scientists have ...More
    December 22, 2009
    Posted in News, Disinfection & Sterilization
  • Pumpkin Skin May Scare Away Germs
    The skin of that pumpkin you carve into a Jack-o'-Lantern on Halloween contains a substance that could put a scare into microbes that cause millions of cases of yeast infections in adults and infants each year. That's the conclusion of a new study, "Antifungal Mechanism of ...More
    October 28, 2009
    Posted in News
  • Mounting a Multi-Layered Attack on Fungal Infections
    Unraveling a microbe's multi-layer defense mechanisms could lead to effective new treatments for potentially lethal fungal infections in cancer patients and others whose natural immunity is weakened.Although not as well known as bacterial infections, such as MRSA and ...More
    September 8, 2009
    Posted in News
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