NEET BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Candida albicans is a type of fungus that can infect your skin, mouth, gastrointestinal tract, urinary tract, or genitals. It’s normal for small amounts of candida albicans to be present on your skin and in your body. But when these fungi multiply too much, they can cause an infection known as a yeast infection.

Detailed explanation-2: -Like bacteria, fungi can comprise part of our normal flora. For example, Candida species are common fungi that are normal flora on our skin and in our respiratory, genital, and digestive tracts. Candida is normally kept in check by other normal flora as well as our immune system.

Detailed explanation-3: -The most common fungal infection of the oral cavity is candidiasis. The existence of Candida can be a part of normal commensal; hence, the isolation of Candida in the absence of clinical symptoms should exclude candidiasis. The pathogenicity of Candida is witnessed as opportunistic when immune status is compromised.

Detailed explanation-4: -albicans is the major fungal species in the human gut. While several species of the genus Candida are generally accepted as true gut symbiotic fungi (Fiers et al., 2019), C. albicans is the most frequently detected fungus in faeces of healthy humans.