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Clarifying and Imaging Candida albicans Biofilms.
Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE - 6 Mar 2020
Lanni Frederick, Lagree Katherine, Huang Manning Y, Yan Lan, Woolford Carol A, Mitchell Aaron P
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The microbial fungus Candida albicans can undergo a change from commensal colonization to virulence that is strongly correlated with its ability to switch from yeast-form growth to hyphal growth. Cells initiating this process become adherent to surfaces as well as to each other, with the resulting development of a biofilm colony. This commonly occurs not only on mucosal tissue surfaces in yeast infections, but...
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