Bay Biosciences provides high quality, clinical grade bio-samples, biopsy tissue samples, FFPE tissue blocks, sera (serum), plasma and peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) biofluid specimens from patients diagnosed with fungal infection. The PBMC, sera (serum) and plasma samples are processed from patient’s peripheral whole-blood using customized processing protocols.
The sera (serum), plasma and PBMC biofluid specimens are processed from fungal infection patient’s peripheral whole-blood using customized collection and processing protocols.
The fungal infection tissue and matched biofluid samples are collected from unique patients diagnosed with fungal infection and are provided to a valued pharmaceutical customer for research, diagnostics, discovery and drug development.
Detailed clinical data, fungal infection patient’s history, symptoms, complete blood count (CBC), serology, MRI, biopsy tissue, histopathology information, elevated biomarker levels, genetic and metabolic information associated with fungal infection specimens is provided to a valued customer for research, development and drug discovery.
The fungal infection sera (serum), plasma and peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) biofluids are processed from patients peripheral whole-blood using customized collection and processing protocols.
Fungal Infections Overview
Fungal infections are common throughout our environment globally. In humans, fungal infections develop when an invading fungus takes over an area of the body creating disease and the immune system is not able to fight it effectively. Fungi can live in the air, soil, water, and plants.
There are also some fungi that live naturally in the human body. Like many microbes, there are helpful fungi and harmful fungi. When harmful fungi invade the body, they can be difficult to kill, as they can survive in the environment and re-infect the person trying to get better.
Mild fungal skin diseases can look like a rash and are very common. Fungal diseases in the lungs are often similar to other illnesses such as bacterial or viral pneumonia. Some fungal diseases like fungal meningitis and bloodstream infections are less common than skin and lung infections but can be life threatening.
Some of the fungal diseases can affect people with weakened immune systems. Weakened immune systems can’t fight off infections as well, due to conditions such as HIV, cancer, organ transplants, or certain medications.
Types of Fungal Infections
Following are some of the common types of infections:
- Fungal Nail Infections: These are common infections of the toenails and finger nails.
- Candida Infections caused by yeast candida: These type of fungal infections affects the mouth, throat and esophagus.
- Ringworm: This type of fungal infection looks like a circular rash.
- Vaginal Candidiasis: This type of fungal infection is caused by the yeast candida, also known as “vaginal yeast infection“.
Following are some of the fungal diseases that affect people with weakened immune system:
- Aspergillosis: This type of fungal infection is caused by Aspergillus which is a type of common mold that lives indoors and outdoors.
- Candidiasis: Candida lives inside the body and on the skin, usually without causing any serious problems. It cause infections if it grows out of control or if it enters deep into the body.
- Candida Auris Infection: This is a drug resistant fungus found in hospitals and presents a serious health threat worldwide.
- Cryptococcus Neoformans: This type of fungal infection causes meningitis and can infect the brain and is more likely to affect HIV/AIDS patients.
- Invasive Candidiasis: This type of fungal infection can affect the brain, bones, eyes, heart and the blood stream. Invasive candidiasis is more common in patients who are hospitalized.
- Mucormycosis: This type of fungal infection is caused by type of molds known as mucormycetes.
- Pneumocystis Pneumonia: This type of fungal infection is caused by a fungus knowns as pneumocystis jirovecli.
- Talaromycosis: This type of fungal infection is caused by taloromycosis which is found in southeast regions of Asia including China and India.
Following are some of the other health problems and diseases caused by fungal infections:
- Fungal Eye Infections: Many different types of fungi can cause eye infections. The most common way for someone to develop a fungal eye infection is as a result of an eye injury.
- Mycetoma: Mycetoma is a disease caused by certain types of bacteria and fungi found in soil and water. These bacteria and fungi may enter the body through a break in the skin, often on a person’s foot. Mycetoma can be caused by bacteria (actinomycetoma) or fungi (eumycetoma).
- Sporotrichosis: Sporotrichosis is an infection caused by a fungus called Sporothrix. This fungus lives throughout the world in soil and on plant matter such as sphagnum moss, rose bushes, and hay.
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Bay Biosciences maintains and manages it’s own bio-repository, human tissue bank (biobank) consisting of thousands of diseased samples (specimens) and from normal healthy donors available in all formats and types. Our biobank procures and stores fully consented, deidentified and institutional review boards (IRB) approved human tissue samples and matched controls.
All our human human tissue collections, human specimens and human bio-fluids are provided with detailed samples associated patient’s clinical data. This critical patient’s clinical data includes information relating to their past and current disease, treatment history, lifestyle choices, biomarkers and genetic information. Patient’s data is extremely valuable for researchers and is used to help identify new effective treatments (drug discovery & development) in oncology, other therapeutic areas and diseases. This clinical information is critical to demonstrate their impact, monitor the safety of medicines, testing & diagnostics, and generate new knowledge about the causes of disease and illness.
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Bay Biosciences provides human tissue samples (human specimens) from diseased and normal healthy donors; including peripheral whole-blood, amniotic fluid, bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BAL), sputum, pleural effusion, cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), serum (sera), plasma, peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC’s), saliva, Buffy coat, urine, stool samples, aqueous humor, vitreous humor, kidney stones, renal calculi, nephrolithiasis, urolithiasis and other bodily fluids from most diseases including cancer.
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In addition to the standard processing protocols Bay Biosciences can also provide human plasma, serum, PBMC bio-fluid samples using custom processing protocols, you can buy donor specific sample collections in higher volumes and specified sample aliquoting from us.
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