Immunomodulatory drug fingolimod (FTY720) restricts the growth of opportunistic yeast Candida albicans in vitro and in a mouse candidiasis model

• Niloofar Najarzadegan,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Falavarjan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran

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• Mahboobeh Madani ,

  Roles Supervision, Validation

  * E-mail: mmadani66@gmail.com

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Falavarjan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran

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• Masoud Etemadifar,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, School of Medicine, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran

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• Nahad Sedaghat

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Alzahra Research Institute, Alzahra University Hospital, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran, Network of Immunity in Infection, Malignancy and Autoimmunity (NIIMA), Universal Scientific, Education, and Research Network (USERN), Isfahan, Iran

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2796-6791

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