The most common forms of disease that result from Candida infection include oropharyngeal candidiasis (the most frequent opportunistic infection among HIV-infected individuals and transplant recipients), vulvovaginal candidiasis (which afflicts 75% of women at some stage of their lives), and candidemia (the fourth most common bloodstream infection in the US, where it is associated with a mortality rate of up to 38%) [1–3]. There are >150 species in the genus Candida, of which approximately 30 have been implicated in the causation of human diseases [4]. C albicans is the species most commonly isolated in clinical microbiology laboratories, and it is generally responsible for ≥90% of cases of mucosal candidiasis and 40–70% of cases of candidemia and systemic disease, although these frequencies vary by center and geographical location [5]. The list of Candida spp. that are capable of infecting humans is ever increasing, but C albicans, C glabrata, C parapsilosis,and C tropicalis are responsible for >90% of cases of candidiasis [2].