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Candida is very “tricky”, to say the least. One has to be trickier. It creates imbalances in the intestinal and vaginal flora. The more the imbalance, the more the symptoms (as indicated above).
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A Candida-specific subset of Gene Ontology is now available for use with the GO Slim Term Mapper tool. The GO Slim is a set of broad, high-level GO terms that have been selected by CGD curators based on significance to Candida biology. The terms are displayed on the GO Slim Term Mapper page, and may ... be downloaded in the goslim_candida.obo file. Please see CGD help for more information.
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The estimated diploid genome size of Candida parapsilosis is 26 Mb with a chromosome number of 14, suggesting a haploid genome of 13 Mb, with 7 chromosomes. The C. parapsilosis isolate 317 from CDC, Atlanta was selected for sequencing. This isolate came from the hands of a hospital worker, who was the source for an outbreak of infection in a Mississippi community hospital in 2001, and was characterised and described in Kuhn et al and Clark et al.
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Candida is aerobic and can grow under hyperbaric oxygen medical conditions but has been found to be inhibited when oxygen pressure levels reach 2 atmospheres and above. Ultrasound in the presence of sublethal hydrogen peroxide was found to be lethal to candida.
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Candida is documented to cause prostatitis in some men, especially in immunocompromised men. There is an ongoing debate about how important Candida is as a cause of chronic prostatitis in men who are not immunocompromised. See:
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Candida can cause hair shedding in male or female patients. The exact mechanism is unclear because there are so many possible pathways. The three most likely pathways are thyroid dysfunction, allergies and enzyme suppression.
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