Title |
Evaluation of adhesion forces of Staphylococcus aureus along the length of Candida albicanshyphae
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Published in |
BMC Microbiology, November 2012
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DOI | 10.1186/1471-2180-12-281 |
Pubmed ID | |
Authors |
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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