Candida commensalism and virulence: the evolution of phenotypic plasticity.

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Candida albicans and related species live as benign commensals in one or more body locations in a majority of healthy individuals. As opportunistic pathogens, they are poised to overgrow cavities and penetrate tissue in response to an alteration in host physiology that presumably compromises the immune functions that normally suppress their growth. There is little evidence of the emergence of successful...

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