Extracellular Vesicles: New Bullets to Fight Fungal Infections

While behaving as a commensal yeast in healthy people, Candida albicans remains the deadliest fungal pathogen in immunocompromised patients. Halder et al. deciphered unprecedented immunomodulatory properties of monocyte extracellular vesicles in response to Candida infections, paving the way to consider therapeutic innovations for fungal infections but also inflammatory diseases. While behaving as a commensal yeast in healthy people, Candida albicans remains the deadliest fungal pathogen in immunocompromised patients. Halder et al. deciphered unprecedented immunomodulatory properties of monocyte extracellular vesicles in response to Candida infections, paving the way to consider therapeutic innovations for fungal infections but also inflammatory diseases.