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Evaluation of adhesion forces of Staphylococcus aureus along the length of Candida albicanshyphae

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Title
Evaluation of adhesion forces of Staphylococcus aureus along the length of Candida albicanshyphae
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BMC Microbiology, November 2012
DOI 10.1186/1471-2180-12-281
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Ekaterina S Ovchinnikova, Bastiaan P Krom, Henk J Busscher, Henny C van der Mei

Abstract

Candida albicans is a human fungal pathogen, able to cause both superficial and serious, systemic diseases and is able to switch from yeast cells to long, tube-like hyphae, depending on the prevailing environmental conditions. Both morphological forms of C. albicans are found in infected tissue, often in combination with Staphylococcus aureus. Although bacterial adhesion to the different morphologies of C. albicans has been amply studied, possible differences in staphylococcal adhesion forces along the length of C. albicans hyphae have never been determined. In this study, we aim to verify the hypothesis that the forces mediating S. aureus NCTC8325-4GFP adhesion to hyphae vary along the length of C. albicans SC5314 and MB1 hyphae, as compared with adhesion to yeast cells.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 2 4%
Mexico 1 2%
Unknown 51 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 13 24%
Student > Master 9 17%
Researcher 9 17%
Student > Bachelor 7 13%
Lecturer 3 6%
Other 8 15%
Unknown 5 9%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 17 31%
Immunology and Microbiology 8 15%
Medicine and Dentistry 8 15%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 5 9%
Engineering 5 9%
Other 5 9%
Unknown 6 11%
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