CANDIDA AND COMPLEMENT: NEW ASPECTS IN AN OLD BATTLE

Candida is a dominant fungal pathogen in immunocompromised hosts, leading to opportunistic infections.Complement with its multifaceted functions is involved in the immune defense against this yeast, and recently several novel aspects have emerged in this old battle.It is clear that Candida can adopt both roles as a colonizer or as a pathogen.In our

To analyze the evolutionary characteristics of the highly contagious porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV) at the molecular and structural levels, we analyzed the complete genomes of 647 strains retrieved from the GenBank database.The results showed that the spike (S) gene exhibited larger dS (synonymous substitutions per synonymous Airliner Model