Genetic susceptibility to Candida infection: a new look at an old entity.

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Intriguingly, this has opened the door to the identification of a molecular pathogenesis in patients affected by a narrow to extremely narrow susceptibility to bacterial, viral and fungal infections.3-7 These patients, more common than originally thought, are often otherwise healthy and are not prone to other unusually severe infections.