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Opportunist A food-borne yeast found to preferentially colonize inflamed gut tissue and impair wound healing in Crohn’s — a striking, specific fungal finding.
Associated with these conditions
Preferentially colonizes inflamed lesions and impairs mucosal wound healing in Crohn’s — a specific, mechanistic fungal finding.
Reported in Disbiome.
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