There are many common names for the diseases because the fungus is so commonly associated with infections. The word thrush is derived from ancient Scandinavian or Anglo-Saxon words for the disease. Factors predisposing people to candidiasis include AIDS, burn patients, young individual, pregnancy, oral birth control, high fruit diets, steroids, antibiotic therapy, immunosuppressants, cancer treatments, heart surgery, genetic deficiency, endocrine deficiency diabetes, use of catheters, and use of dirty needles Methods of isolation characterization and identification of yeasts are very different from those of the mycelial fungi. Morphology is much less important, although C. albicans will form chlamydospores, such as you see to the left, on certain media. Most yeasts, however, look pretty much the same.
Physiology is far more important.
Most are based on variations on these physiological tests. There are many other kinds of yeasts that cause human disease. Cryptococcus neoformans and other species cause of cryptococcosis or cryptococcal meningitis, and infection of the lining of the brain. Bob Dylan reportedly suffered from this disease in summer of 1997. This disease is endemic to the Mississippi and Ohio River Valley, but also occurs elsewhere.