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Which statement best summarizes how pathogenic fungi cause diseas

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Pathogenic fungi are characterized by being able to invade human tissue, colonizing and proliferating strategically in order to consume resources from the human body.

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Many times fungi take human metabolisms as a resource for their existence, they damage tissues by damaging them themselves or by promoting a toxic inflammatory response.

An example of these fungi are the genus and species candida albicans

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