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Passage through the mammalian gut triggers a phenotypic switch that promotes Candida albicans commensalism

Among ~5,000,000 fungal species,(1) Candida albicans is exceptional in its lifelong association with humans, either within the gastrointestinal microbiome or as an invasive pathogen.(2) Opportunistic infections are generally ascribed to defective host immunity (3) but may require specific microbial...

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Autores principales: Pande, Kalyan, Chen, Changbin, Noble, Suzanne M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3758371/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23892606
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ng.2710