Immunology of oral candidiasis

• Main Authors: Janardhanam Dineshshankar (Author), Muniapillai Sivakumar (Author), M Karthikeyan (Author), P Udayakumar (Author), K T Shanmugam (Author), G Kesavan (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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A successful pathogen is one that is able to effectively survive and evade detection by the host immune defense. Oral candidiasis has adopted strategies, which evade host defense and eventually cause disease in at-risk patients. Host defense against infections with Candida spp. depends on rapid acti...