Candida stellata
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Candida stellata is a species of yeast
of the genus Candida
. In the 1978 work of Yarrow & Meyer the yeast was reclassified to its current name from Saccharomyces stellatus, which was initially described by Kroemer and Krumbholz in 1931.
Yeast
Yeasts are eukaryotic micro-organisms classified in the kingdom Fungi, with 1,500 species currently described estimated to be only 1% of all fungal species. Most reproduce asexually by mitosis, and many do so by an asymmetric division process called budding...
of the genus Candida
Candida (genus)
Candida is a genus of yeasts. Many species are harmless commensals or endosymbionts of animal hosts including humans, but other species, or harmless species in the wrong location, can cause disease. Candida albicans can cause infections in humans and other animals, especially in immunocompromised...
. In the 1978 work of Yarrow & Meyer the yeast was reclassified to its current name from Saccharomyces stellatus, which was initially described by Kroemer and Krumbholz in 1931.