An opportunistic mycosis that involves fungal infection of the mouth, throat, skin, scalp, vagina, fingers, nails, bronchi, lungs, heart and brain by Candida species, of which Candida albicans is the most common. Systemic Candida infections are usually confined to severely immunocompromised persons. (Human Disease Ontology, DOID_1508)
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27 genes co-occuring with the biological term candidiasis in literature-supported statements describing functions of genes from the GeneRIF Biological Term Annotations dataset.