Posts Tagged ‘Candida’
You know it is a good day at the library when you walk by the magazine rack and see a false-color electron micrograph image of a conidiophore on a cover. It was the cover of the May 22, edition of ScienceNews, which happened to contain a feature article entitled I, Mold by Laura Bell. It [...]
Tags: Aspergillus, Candida, Cryptococcus, fungal disease, medical mycology, mold, ScienceNews
A post at the website of R&D Magazine provides a concise description of a recently completed project that accomplished full-genome sequencing of six strains in the genus Candida. Members of the genus Candida (especially Candida albicans) are causative agents of “yeast” infections in humans. Candida is also a lethal agent of deep mycoses in immunodeficient [...]
Tags: Candida, genomics, pathogeni fungi
