Discussion on category, characteristic, infection mechanism and application of pathogenic yeasts

Yeasts,unicellular type of fungi,belong to a large group of Microbiology and are ubiquitous in nature.A majority of yeasts are beneficial to human beings.However,in recent studies,it was showen that cases on infection disease caused by yeasts were rising fastly and it was very difficult to heal the diseases.Therefore,research on pathogenic yeasts has become a hot topic in life science fields.In this paper,we discussed the category,distribution,characteristic,infection mechanism and their application in biocontrol of pathogenic yeasts.In addition,the diseases caused by the pathogenic yeasts,the corresponding symptoms,the problems on how to prevent and treat the diseases were also discussed.The discussion in the paper will increase our understanding of the pathogenic yeasts. Key words: Yeast; Pathogenicity; Infection mechanism; Application