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Candida stellata
Introduction
Candida stellata is a species of yeast of the genus Candida. In the 1978 work of Yarrow & Meyer the yeast was reclassified to its current name from Saccharomyces stellatus, which was initially described by Kroemer and Krumbholz in 1931. [1]