Clinical Microbiology Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Canada
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Candida Albicans Symptoms and Treatment
Author(s): Dr. Soniya Mandana*
Candida albicans is a common commensal fungus that lives in healthy people's
skin and infects the pharynx, gastrointestinal, and vaginal tracts. C. albicans is a
part of the normal macrobiotic flora in 50% of people. Candida species can cause a
variety of clinical manifestations, ranging from superficial, localized disorders of the
mucocutaneous system to invasive, life-threatening diseases that affect multiple
organ systems. Diverse factors, ranging from systemic and local to hereditary and
environmental, disrupt Candida's normal homeostasis, transforming normal flora
into pathogenic and opportunistic infections. Candida's virulence characteristics,
which lead to the development of candidiasis, also influence the transition
in the pathophysiology of the onset and progression of infection. There are
many different clinical manifestations of oral candidias.. View More»
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