A new study has uncovered how a surprising player in the immune system, eosinophils, best known for their role in allergies ...

New research shows that eosinophils, immune cells usually linked to allergies, also play a protective role against Candida ...

Most healthy people have small amounts of the fungus Candida albicans in their mouth, in their digestive tract and on their skin. Ordinarily, the fungus causes no problems because its growth is kept ...

The yeast fungus Candida albicans not only uses the toxin candidalysin to cause infections, but also to colonize the oral mucosa inconspicuously—but only in finely balanced amounts. Too little toxin ...

Photodynamic therapy (PDT) may be an effective treatment for fungal infections and certain bacterial infections of the oral cavity, including some that are resistant to antibiotics, research from the ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — You might call Candida albicans a shape-shifter: As this fungus grows, it can multiply as single, oval-shaped cells called yeast or propagate in an elongated form called hypha, ...