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The Role Of Superficial Yeast Infections In Humans

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Yeasts which are unicellular fungi that cause a wide range of infections commonly called yeast infections in humans. Yeast infections are characterized into two groups- superficial and systemic. Superficial yeast infections affect different parts of the human body including the skin, mouth, digestive tract, nails, etc and can become persistent (Thevissen, 2005).Systemic yeast infections also called invasive yeast infections affect the brain, spinal cord, eye, gall bladder, heart, lungs, kidneys and urinary bladder. These infections have considerably increased over the past recent three decades due to transplantation procedures, cancer chemotherapy, steroid therapy and, in particular, HIV infection thus leading to a rise in the number of immunocompromised

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