The oral fungal pathogen Candida albicans (red) produce hyphae that allow attachment of another fungus Candida glabrata (green)

Yeast cells of Candida glabrata (green) adhere to Candida albicans hyphae (red) both in static culture (left, scanning electron microscopy) and under biofilm conditions of flow (right, confocal fluorescence microscopy).

 

This image was chosen as a winner of the 2016 NIH funded research image call.

 

Credit: Edgerton Lab, State University of New York at Buffalo

 

NIH funding from: National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR)

 

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