# Candida in the lung: Fact, fiction, friend or foe?

**Authors:** Philip Mitchelmore, Seána Duggan

PMC · DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1014038 · 2026-03-10

## Full-text entities

- **Diseases:** lung sterility (MESH:D007246), COVID (MESH:D000086382), immune dysfunction (MESH:D007154), pulmonary fungal (MESH:D008172), infection (MESH:D007239), ABPA (MESH:D001229), toxicity (MESH:D064420), epithelial injury (MESH:D009375), co-infection (MESH:D060085), bronchiectasis (MESH:D001987), fungal (MESH:D009181), invasive disease (MESH:D009361), bloodstream infections (MESH:D018805), ABPC (MESH:D055744), allergic airway disease (MESH:D004342), candidiasis (MESH:D002177), lung damage (MESH:D008171), fungal dysbiosis (MESH:D064806), lung injury (MESH:D055370), asthma (MESH:D001249), CF (MESH:D003550), Critically ill (MESH:D016638), airway inflammation (MESH:D007249), respiratory infections (MESH:D012141), respiratory disease (MESH:D012140), airway obstruction (MESH:D000402), pulmonary infiltrates (MESH:D017254), pneumonia (MESH:D011014), Immune-mediated airway disease (MESH:C567355), COPD (MESH:D029424)
- **Chemicals:** amphotericin B (MESH:D000666), cyclic-di-GMP (MESH:C062025), itraconazole (MESH:D017964), fluconazole (MESH:D015725), azole (MESH:D001393), phenazines (MESH:D010619), ethanol (MESH:D000431)
- **Species:** Staphylococcus aureus (species) [taxon 1280], Candida [taxon 1535326], Homo sapiens (human, species) [taxon 9606], Lodderomyces parapsilosis (species) [taxon 5480], Candida dubliniensis (species) [taxon 42374], Acinetobacter baumannii (species) [taxon 470], Pseudomonas aeruginosa (species) [taxon 287], Mus musculus (house mouse, species) [taxon 10090], Nakaseomyces glabratus (species) [taxon 5478], Saccharomyces cerevisiae (baker's yeast, species) [taxon 4932], Eurotium (genus) [taxon 28569], Candida albicans (species) [taxon 5476], Aspergillus fumigatus (species) [taxon 746128], Histoplasma capsulatum (species) [taxon 5037], Penicillium (genus) [taxon 5073], Dictyostelium (genus) [taxon 5782], Pneumocystis jirovecii (species) [taxon 42068]

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