| Chapter title |
Staphylococcus-Candida Interaction Models: Antibiotic Resistance Testing and Host Interactions.
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|---|---|
| Chapter number | 11 |
| Book title |
Candida Species
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| Published in |
Methods in molecular biology, January 2016
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| DOI | 10.1007/978-1-4939-3052-4_11 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Book ISBNs |
978-1-4939-3051-7, 978-1-4939-3052-4
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| Authors |
Scheres, Nina, Krom, Bastiaan P, Nina Scheres, Bastiaan P. Krom |
| Abstract |
The fungus Candida albicans and bacterium Staphylococcus aureus can coexist in polymicrobial biofilms. S. aureus attaches strongly to hyphae, but not to the yeast form, of C. albicans with important consequences for virulence. Hyphae-associated S. aureus is less susceptible to antibiotic treatment. Furthermore, co-inoculation of C. albicans and S. aureus causes more severe and widespread infection than either microorganism alone. In this chapter, a basic in vitro model for studying the interaction between C. albicans hyphae and S. aureus is presented, which makes use of a fluorescently labeled S. aureus strain. Furthermore, two protocols are described that allow investigation of the effect of C. albicans and S. aureus interaction on antibiotic susceptibility or on interactions with the host. The latter focuses on phagocytosis of C. albicans-adhered S. aureus by macrophages. The protocols presented here may serve as a starting point to study the interaction of C. albicans with various other bacterial species. |
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