Virulence Factor That Induces Fatal Candida Infection Identified

Thursday, July 17, 2008 - 10:21 in Biology & Nature

Singapore scientists found that certain substances from bacteria living in the human intestine cause the normally harmless Candida albicans fungus to become highly infectious. Once in the infectious form, the fungus is able to invade surrounding tissues and escape destruction by the body's own immune cells.

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