Candida Species Crossword

The most important and prevalent species of Candida genus, C. ______
Type of pathogen
Main cause of ______
Type of cells
Inhibit ergosterol biosynthesis
Candida albicans is the predominant cause of _______ candidiasis
Type of azole used in treatement
Most frequent fungal disease
Cell type targeted by ____ compound
Type of infection caused by candida species
Tract where the Candida albicans reside
Number of Candida species that make up more than 90% invasive infections
Analogous to cholesterol in animal cells
Azole family includes
Resistance tends to be species _______
Uptake of flucytosine is affected by point mutations in _____ gene
Caspofungin is only available in one type of preparation
Treatment using antifungal drugs has led to antifungal _____
Class that micafungin belongs to
Bind ergosterol and disrupt the major lipidic component of the fungal cell membrane
Flucytosine is a ______ analogue
Candida species can cause
Superficial infections can be treated with ______ antifungal drugs
Most frequent hospital infection
Yeast infections range from superficial infections to _____
Candida are considered ______ inhabitants of the skin and mucous membranes
Minimum number of species from the Candida genus that are associated with human pathologies
Peptide that act as a antifungal agent
Gene that shows resistance to azole agents
A new type alternative to traditional drugs against resistance in the Candida genus
Plants used against Candida species, Lonicera ______
Second most common Candida species, Candida _______
Historically, these type of patients have been associated with infection
Name assigned to imperfect fungi
Many Candida species belong to the ______ clade
Diploid asexual Candida species undergo a _____ cycle
C. albicans can form stable ______
In C. albicans, part of fungi that can damage both epithelial cells and endothelial cells
Invasin that appears to be restricted to C. albicans
The closest relative of C. albicans with a fully sequenced genome, C. _______
C. tropicalis switches from white to _____ cells
Improvements in genome sequencing have been paralleled by improvements in genome ______
______ typing methods have been used to type microevolution events during infection
The sexually competent form of C. krusei
The candida species that is higher in infants, C. _____
The presence of one or more chromosomes or the absence of one or more chromosomes
The substitution of serine for ______ at CTG codons is not complete
Affect the function of key signaling molecules
Switch from white cells to opaque cells is correlated with
Cell that is more virulent in systemic infections