Patients with diabetes are prone to recurring and even resistant Candidiasis, making treatment challenging. Many hypotheses proposed related susceptibility of diabetic patients Candida. The prevalence species Candida in a particular community might be different compared other community. This study aimed determine the colony its oral cavity included CDM (Chronic Disease Management) program Yogya...

BACKGROUND Prevalence of oral candidiasis in diabetic patients is 13.7-64%. Candida albicans was the most frequently isolated species (75-86.5%). OBJECTIVE To obtain the prevalence of Candida carriers among patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus to identify the species of the yeast. STUDY DESIGN It is an open, observational, descriptive, cross-sectional, and prospective study. METHODS We ...

Due to the rising importance of Candida glabrata and other non-albicans Candida as principle human opportunistic pathogens, 356 women with abnormal vaginal discharge who attended a private obstetrics and gynecology clinic in Amman, Jordan, between January 1999 and February 2001 were examined. The isolation rate of Candida spp. from high-vaginal swabs was 44.9%. CHROMagar Candida and conventiona...

This study aimed to evaluate the in vitro antifungal susceptibility of Candida species of head-and-neck-irradiated patients (Group 1), non-institutionalized (Group 2) and institutionalized elders (Group 3) using Etest® methodology. Candida was isolated from saliva and presumptively identified by CHROMagar Candida(r), confirmed by morphological criteria, carbohydrate assimilation (API 20C AUX®) ...

background and purpose: tgf-β is a potent regulator and suppressor of the immune system and overproduction of this cytokine may contribute to immunosuppression in hiv-infected patients. increasing population of immunosuppressed patients has resulted in increasingly frequent of fungal infections, including oral candidiasis. the aim of this study was to evaluate the plasma levels of tgf-β under i...

The purpose of this work was to evaluate biochemical and serological methods to characterize and identify Candida species from the oral cavity. The strains used were five Candida species previously identified: C. albicans, C. guilliermondii, C. parapsilosis, C. krusei, C. tropicalis, and Kluyveromyces marxianus, as a negative control. The analyses were conducted through the SDS-PAGE associated ...

BACKGROUND Candida species is the third commonest cause of sepsis among neonates. Colonization by Candida is a predictor for candidemia among preterm neonates. OBJECTIVES To determine prevalence of early Candida colonization and early outcome among colonized preterm neonates admitted to Mulago hospital Special Care Unit. METHODS A prospective observational cohort was conducted between Decem...