Editing Candida albicans (section)

==Etymology==
"''Candida albicans''" can be read as [[tautology (language)|tautological]]. "[[wikt:Candida#Etymology|Candida]]" comes from the Latin word "[[wikt:candidus#Adjective|candidus]]", meaning "shining white". "[[wikt:albicans#Etymology|Albicans]] itself is the present participle of the Latin word "[[wikt:albico#Verb|albicō]]", meaning "becoming white". This leads to one possible interpretation as the redundant phrase "pure white becoming white".{{citation needed|date=August 2022}}<!-- Insert citation:

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It is often shortly referred to as thrush, candidiasis, or candida.
More than a hundred synonyms have been used to describe ''C. albicans''.<ref name="The yeasts">{{cite book|title=The yeasts, a taxonomic study|date=1998|isbn=978-0444813121|edition=4| vauthors = Kurtzman CP, Fell JW |publisher=Elsevier }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | vauthors = Simi V | title = Origin of the Names of Species of Candida | url = http://www.antimicrobe.org/h04c.files/history/candida-history.pdf | access-date = 2017-05-17 | archive-date = 2015-06-21 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150621055659/http://www.antimicrobe.org/h04c.files/history/candida-history.pdf | url-status = live }}</ref>
Over 200 species have been described within the candida genus. The oldest reference to thrush, most likely caused by ''C. albicans'', dates back to 400 BC in [[Hippocrates]]' work ''Of the Epidemics'' describing oral candidiasis.<ref name="The yeasts"/><ref>{{cite web | vauthors = McCool L | title = The Discovery and Naming of Candida albicans | url = http://www.antimicrobe.org/h04c.files/history/DiscoveryNaming%20of%20CandidaAlbicans.pdf | access-date = 2017-05-17 | archive-date = 2018-05-05 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180505083908/http://antimicrobe.org/h04c.files/history/DiscoveryNaming%20of%20CandidaAlbicans.pdf | url-status = live }}</ref>