Malassezia: The Forbidden Kingdom Opens

Thomas L Dawson Jr

doi:10.1016/j.chom.2019.02.010

Malassezia: The Forbidden Kingdom Opens

Cell Host Microbe. 2019 Mar 13;25(3):345-347. doi: 10.1016/j.chom.2019.02.010.

Author

Thomas L Dawson Jr¹

Affiliation

¹ Skin Research Institute, Singapore (SRIS), Singapore; Center for Cell Death, Injury & Regeneration, Departments of Drug Discovery & Biomedical Sciences and Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA. Electronic address: thomas_dawson@sris.a-star.edu.sg.

PMID: 30870616
DOI: 10.1016/j.chom.2019.02.010

Abstract

Malassezia yeast exist on all humans and have long been associated with healthy and diseased skin. In this issue of Cell Host & Microbe, Sparber et al. (2019) and Limon et al. (2019) present murine models for Malassezia/host interaction and describe a role for Malassezia in inflammatory skin and gut disease.

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MeSH terms

Animals
Colitis*
Crohn Disease*
Disease Models, Animal
Humans
Malassezia*
Mice
Skin