Is Candida albicans an opportunistic oncogenic pathogen?

• Ahmed S. Sultan ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ahmed S. Sultan, Vasileios Ionas Theofilou

  * E-mail: asultan1@umaryland.edu

  Affiliations Department of Oncology and Diagnostic Sciences, School of Dentistry, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, University of Maryland Greenebaum Cancer Center, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5286-4562

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• Vasileios Ionas Theofilou ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ahmed S. Sultan, Vasileios Ionas Theofilou

  Affiliation Department of Oncology and Diagnostic Sciences, School of Dentistry, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Areej Alfaifi,

  Affiliations Department of Oncology and Diagnostic Sciences, School of Dentistry, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Restorative and Prosthetic Dental Sciences, College of Dentistry King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

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• Daniel Montelongo-Jauregui,

  Affiliation Department of Oncology and Diagnostic Sciences, School of Dentistry, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Mary-Ann Jabra-Rizk

  Affiliations Department of Oncology and Diagnostic Sciences, School of Dentistry, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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