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The genus Candida comprises around 150 species:
Harmless Candida species | use |
Candida robusta | bakers' yeast |
Candida kefyr | |
Candida antartica | Biocatalysis |
12 subdivisions are infective.
Pathogenic Candida species |
Candida albicans |
Candida krusei |
Candida parapsilosis |
Candida tropicalis |
Candida lusitaniae |
Candida glabrata |
it is Saccharomycetes which is quite logical because S. cerevisiae is the same phylum, order and family as Candida and so it can not be different class. — Alash 12:11, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
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This article's tone is somewhat biased toward allopathy - a practice of medicine which has not figured out how to treat Candida infections effectively, and also has a vested interest in people NOT being cured of this disease (sales of all types of antifungal pills, creams, ointments, sprays, powders, etc.)
Allopathic treatments often require increasing doses of anti-fungal medications each visit just to keep fungal overgrowth symptoms from getting worse. A result of these treatments are new strains of "-azole resistant Candida" you've been reading about on Google Scholar.
Staying open to ideas about nutrition and alternative medicine is important for treating this condition. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.230.203.96 ( talk) 16:36, 6 June 2012 (UTC)
There is too much of a focus on alternative medicine in this article. Can someone look into the balance of this and investigate any possible spamming? —Preceding unsigned comment added by NASSAfellow ( talk • contribs) 21:23, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
At least one of the theories that is presented here as "quacky alter theory" is supported by multiple actual MDs -- that is that candidiasis is correlated to increased and overt use of antibiotics which decimates metabolism flora and as results creates fertile ground for funghi infections. Then again (me being a physicist rather than physician) I've never seen a flakier and more half-assed field of hard science with more opinionated and stubborn people than medicine. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.250.108.155 ( talk) 07:44, 2 November 2010 (UTC)
Candida apparently has an unusual life cycle. This would be worth covering here.
There is not enough detail; there is a lot of bias and use of "weasel words", poor sources (for example a blog by a doctor is assumed to stand for the opinion of all/most doctors, or an alternative medicine website is assumed to stand for the belief of all/most alternative practitioners); some sources are poorly paraphrased (a statement will say something different than the source says, be incomplete when summarizing the source, or make O.R. conclusions); and there are many vague/unclear statements. I'll try to work on it more when I have time, but it would be great if anyone else wants to help. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.21.194.152 ( talk) 10:26, 25 November 2012 (UTC)
I just added the undue weight tag to the "alternative therapies" section as the amount of pseudoscientific claims it makes isn't balanced by any findings and treatments of conventional medicine. Them From Space 20:31, 25 January 2014 (UTC)
There have been a lot of ads about candida, dubbed "The American Parasite" aimed at scaring people into buying a particular brand of probiotic dietary supplement. The ads imply that candida overgrowth in the gut causes serious health problems for hundreds of millions of Americans, and that measures to combat it have been suppressed by the establishment. The prevalence of such ads, and the fact that money can be made by scaring people this way, is noteworthy, but it may belong more in the articles on advertising or dietary supplements or drug regulation than in this article. CharlesHBennett ( talk) 21:44, 23 April 2014 (UTC)
I think that the information should exist in this article. Or at least a link to the article on it. This article will come up when people look for "candida" and I believe that many aren't looking for the yeast, but the "disease". 22:16, 16 December 2014 (UTC)