Cryptococcus neoformans is a human pathogenic yeast that causes hundreds of thousands of deaths worldwide among susceptible individuals, in particular, HIV+ patients. This yeast has developed several adaptation mechanisms ...

Biofilm formation has been detected quite early in the fossil record (~3.25 billion years ago) and is common throughout a diverse range of organisms in both the Archaea and bacteria lineages, including the ‘living fossils’ ...

Over the past 3 decades, important progress in the therapy of fungal infections has been made. Although several chemotherapeutic agents are relatively effective against the different species of the Sporothrix schenckii ...

Antifungal host responses can vary depending on the site of infection, fungal pathogen, fungal morphotype (yeast versus hyphae), and immune status of the host. Variation in the virulence of individual Sporothrix schenckii ...

Serological methods are of considerable value in paracoccidioidomycosis. Counter-immunoelectrophoresis, otherwise known as electrosyneresis or immunoelectroosmophoresis, has been frequently applied for the immunodiagnosis ...

Oral cavity harbors a complex and highly diverse microbial community. Cross-kingdom interactions between Candida and oral bacteria are critical for their co-existence, which may also affect the course and the severity of ...