CONICET | Buscador de Institutos y Recursos Humanos

Parasites and yeast are microorganisms that have the amazing ability to adapt to different microenvironments during its life cycle, causing asymptomatic as well as symptomatic infections. Recently, the capacity of these microorganisms to rapidly and efficiently adapt to a new situation in order to survive has been linked to epigenetic modifications. In this chapter, we reviewed some of these mechanisms as focused in the importance in parasite and yeast survival and pathogenicity to humans. Knowledge of these molecular mechanisms may be exploited as new therapeutic treatments in order to control these important infection diseases.