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.

Moreover , the serum, plasma and PBMCs are processed from fungal infection patient’s peripheral whole-blood using customized collection and processing protocols. Furthermore the 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.

In addition, detailed clinical information, elevated biomarker levels, genetic and metabolic information associated with fungal infection samples is provided to a valued customer for research, development and drug discovery.

Fungal Infections Overview

Fungal infections are common throughout our environment globally. In particular, in humans, fungal infections develop when an invading fungus takes over an area of the body, thereby creating disease, and the immune system is not able to fight it effectively.

Moreover, fungi can live in the air, soil, water, and plants. In addition, there are also some fungi that live naturally in the human body. For instance, like many microbes, there are helpful fungi and harmful fungi. Consequently, 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.

On a related note, mild fungal skin diseases can look like a rash and are very common. Furthermore, fungal diseases in the lungs are often similar to other illnesses, such as bacterial or viral pneumonia. However, some fungal diseases, like fungal meningitis and bloodstream infections, are less common than skin and lung infections, but can be life-threatening.

Specifically, some of the fungal diseases can affect people with weakened immune systems. As a result, 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

First, following are some of the common types of infections:

  • First, Fungal Nail Infections : These are common infections of the toenails and finger nails.
  • Second, Candida Infections caused by yeast candida: These type of fungal infections affects the mouth, throat and esophagus.
  • Moreover, Ringworm: This type of fungal infection looks like a circular rash.
  • Finally, Vaginal Candidiasis: The yeast candida, also known as “vaginal yeast infection,” causes this type of fungal infection.

Weakened Immune System 

Second, following are some of the fungal diseases that affect people with weakened immune system:

  • Firstly, Aspergillosis: Aspergillus causes this type of fungal infection, and it is a type of common mold that lives indoors and outdoors.
  • Secondly, Candidiasis: Candida lives inside the body and on the skin, usually without causing any serious problems. It causes infections if it grows out of control or if it enters deep into the body.
  • Thirdly, Candida Auris Infection: This drug resistant fungus thrives in hospitals and poses a serious health threat worldwide.
  • Moreover, Cryptococcus Neoformans: This type of fungal infection causes meningitis, can infect the brain, and is more likely to affect HIV/AIDS patients.
  • Furthermore, Invasive Candidiasis: This type of fungal infection can affect the brain, bones, eyes, heart and the blood stream. Invasive candidiasis affects more patients who are hospitalized.
  • Next Mucormycosis: Mucormycetes cause this type of fungal infection.
  • Likewise, Pneumocystis Pneumonia: This type of fungal infection is caused by a fungus knowns as pneumocystis jirovecli.
  • Lastly, Talaromycosis: This type of fungal infection occurs due to talaromycosis, which researchers find in southeast regions of Asia including China and India.

Other Health Problems

Third, 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.

Biospecimens

biospecimens

Bay Biosciences is a global leader in providing researchers with high quality, clinical grade, fully characterized human tissue samples, bio-specimens, and human bio-fluid collections.

Moreover, human biospecimens are available including tumor tissue, serum, plasma and PBMC samples from most other therapeutic areas.

Furthermore, Bay Biosciences maintains and manages its own biorepository, the human tissue bank (biobank) consisting of thousands of diseased samples (specimens) and likewise normal healthy donors for controls. Additionally, available in all formats and types.

In fact, our biobank procures and stores fully consented, de-identified and institutional review boards (IRB) approved human tissue samples, human biofluids such as serum samples, plasma samples from various diseases and matched controls.

Also, all our human tissue collections, human biospecimens and human biofluids are provided with detailed, samples associated patient’s clinical data.

In fact, this critical patient’s clinical data includes information relating to their past and current disease, treatment history, lifestyle choices, biomarkers, and genetic information.

Additionally, researchers find the patient’s data associated with the human biospecimens extremely valuable and use it to help identify new effective treatments (drug discovery & development) in oncology, as well as in other therapeutic areas and diseases.

Bay Biosciences banks wide variety of human tissue samples and human biological samples, including fresh frozen human biospecimens cryogenically preserved at – 80°C.

For example fresh frozen tissue samples, tumor tissue samples, formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded (FFPE), tissue slides, with matching human bio-fluids, whole blood and blood-derived products such as human serum, human plasma and human PBMCs.

Bay Biosciences is a global leader in collecting and providing human tissue samples according to the specified requirements and customized, tailor-made collection protocols.

Please contact us anytime to discuss your special research projects and customized human tissue sample requirements.

Types of Biospecimens

Bay Biosciences provides human tissue samples (human specimens) and human biofluids from diseased and normal healthy donors which includes:

Moreover, we can also procure most human biospecimens and human biofluids, special collections and requests for human samples that are difficult to find. All our human tissue samples and human biofluids are procured through IRB-approved clinical protocols and procedures.

In addition to the standard processing protocols, Bay Biosciences can also provide human biofluids such as  human plasma, human serum, and human PBMCs bio-fluid samples using custom processing protocols; you buy donor-specific collections in higher volumes and specified sample aliquots from us.

Bay Biosciences also provides human biospecimens from normal healthy donors; volunteers, for controls and clinical research, Contact us Now.