Candida albicans colonization of the gastrointestinal tract: A double-edged sword

Rebeca Alonso-Monge; Mark S Gresnigt; Elvira Román; Bernhard Hube; Jesús Pla

doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1009710

Candida albicans colonization of the gastrointestinal tract: A double-edged sword

PLoS Pathog. 2021 Jul 22;17(7):e1009710. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1009710. eCollection 2021 Jul.

Authors

Rebeca Alonso-Monge¹, Mark S Gresnigt², Elvira Román¹, Bernhard Hube^{3

4}, Jesús Pla¹

Affiliations

¹ Departamento de Microbiología y Parasitología-IRYCIS, Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
² Junior Research Group Adaptive Pathogenicity Strategies, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology-Hans-Knoell-Institute, Jena, Germany.
³ Department of Microbial Pathogenicity Mechanisms, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology-Hans-Knoell-Institute, Jena, Germany.
⁴ Institute of Microbiology, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany.

No abstract available

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Review

MeSH terms

Candida albicans*
Candidiasis
Gastrointestinal Microbiome*
Gastrointestinal Tract / microbiology*
Humans

Grants and funding

This research was funded by Grant PGC2018-095047-B-I00 from Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación and InGEMICS (B2017/BMD-3691) from Comunidad de Madrid CAM to JP; German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft - DFG) Emmy Noether Program (Project no.434385622 / GR5617/1-1) to MG; Cluster of Excellence “Balance of the Microverse”, funded by the DFG under Germany's Excellence Strategy – EXC 2051 – Project-ID 390713860, DFG project Hu 532/20-1, project C1 within the Collaborative Research Centre (CRC)/Transregio (TRR) 124 FungiNet, European Union Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No 812969 (FunHoMic) to BH. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.