Candida and candidiasis

 Content: Candida: what should clinicians and scientists be talking about? / Brad Spellberg, Kieren A. Marr, and Scott G. Filler --
 An introduction to the medically important Candida species / Gary Moran, David Coleman, and Derek Sullivan --
 Comparative genomics of Candida species / Geraldine Butler --
 The genetic code of the Candida CTG clade / Ana Catarina Gomes, Gabriela R. Moura, and Manuel A. S. Santos --
 Genome instability and DNA repair / Germán Larriba and Richard A. Calderone --
 Switching and mating / David R. Soll --
 Detection and clinical significance of variability among Candida isolates / Lois L. Hoyer --
 Cell cycle and growth control in Candida species / Cheryl A. Gale and Judith Berman --
 Immunology of invasive candidiasis / Luigina Romani --
 Mucosal immunity to Candida albicans / Paul L. Fidel, Jr. and Mairi C. Noverr --
 Innate immunity to Candida infections / Mihai G. Netea and Neil A. R. Gow --
 Vaccines and passive immunity against candidiasis / Brad Spellberg, Yue Fu, and Ashraf S. Ibrahim --
 Salivary histatins: structure, function, and mechanisms of antifungal activity / Woon Sik Jang and Mira Edgerton --
 The cell wall: glycoproteins, remodeling, and regulation / Carol Munro and Mathias L. Richard --
 Stress responses in Candida / Alistair J. P. Brown ... [et al.] --
 Adhesins in opportunistic fungal pathogens / Rebecca Zordan and Brendan Cormack --
 Encounters with mammalian cells: survival strategies of Candida species / Slavena Vylkova and Michael C. Lorenz --
 Gene expression during the distinct stages of candidiasis / Duncan Wilson, Francois Mayer, and Bernhard Hube --
 Biofilm formation in Candida albicans / Jonathan Sewell Finkel and Aaron P. Mitchell --
 Candida spp. in microbial populations and communities: molecular interactions and biological importance / Amy E. Piispanen and Deborah A. Hogan --
 Back to the future: Candida mitochondria and energetics / Deepu Alex, Richard Calderone, and Dongmei Li --
 Antifungals: drug class, mechanisms of action, pharmacokinetics/pharmacodynamics, drug-drug interactions, toxicity, and clinical use / Jeniel E. Nett and David R. Andes --
 The impact of antifungal drug resistance in the clinic / Russell E. Lewis and Dimitrios P. Kontoyiannis --
 Insights in antifungal drug discovery / Françoise Gay-Andrieu ... [et al.] --
 Multidrug resistance transcriptional regulatory networks in Candida / P. David Rogers and Katherine S. Barker --
 Mucosal candidiasis / Sanjay G. Revankar and Jack D. Sobel --
 Systemic candidiasis: candidemia and deep-organ infections / Cornelius J. Clancy and M. Hong Nguyen --
 New developments in diagnostics and management of invasive candidiasis / Sujatha Krishnan and Luis Ostrosky-Zeichner --
 The epidemiology of invasive candidiasis / Michael A. Pfaller and Daniel J. Diekema --
 Cool tools 1: development and application of a Candida albicans two-hybrid system / Bram Stynen, Patrick Van Dijck, and Hélène Tournu --
 Cool tools 2: development of a Candida albicans cell surface protein microarray / A. Brian Mochon --
 Cool tools 3: large-scale genetic interaction screening in Candida albicans / Yeissa Chabrier-Roselló, Anuj Kumar, and Damian Krysan --
 Cool tools 4: Imaging Candida infections in the live host / Soumya Mitra, Thomas H. Foster, and Melanie Wellington --
 Cool tools 5: the Candida albicans ORFeome project / Mélanie Legrand, Carol Munro, and Christophe D'Enfert.
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              Should become the standard reference work on Candida and candidiasis, the most prevalent fungal infection in humans.                 Read more...