Talk:Candida (genus)
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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 |
- I think this table is probably meaningless or at best an uninformative simplification. It has one obvious error: baker's yeast is not Candida robusta, but Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Anyway, it needs a source. —Keenan Pepper 00:36, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
- The class is Ascomycetes but according to http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?mode=Info&id=4891&lvl=3&lin=f&keep=1&srchmode=1&unlock
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)
