Candida albicans is part of the normal microbiota in most healthy individuals. However, it can cause opportunistic infections if host defenses are breached, with symptoms ranging from superficial lesions to severe systemic disease. The study of rare congenital defects in patients with chronic mucocutaneous candidiasis led to the identification of interleukin-17 (IL-17) as a key factor in host d...

Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis (TEN), which is also known as Lyell's syndrome, is a widespread, life-threatening, mucocutaneous disease that is particularly observed secondary to drugtaking and less commonly secondary to infections and immunization. Carbamazepine is associated with benign pruritic rash in 10-15% of the patients, but the life threatening dermatological syndromes like exfoliative der...

the aim of this retrospective statistical study was to determine the prevalcence and frequency of age and sex distributions of pemphigus disease. pemphigus disease classified as autoimmune bullous dermatoses which is a chronic mucocutaneous disease.this study was performed in razi hospital and department of oral pathology of dental school, tehran university of medical sciences. the most frequen...

lichen planus is a chronic inflammatory mucocutaneous disease. mucosal lesions are classified into six clinical forms and there is malignant potential for two forms of olp; therefore, follow-up should be considered. there are many un-established etiological factors for olp and some different treatment modalities are based on etiology. the aims of current olp therapy are to eliminate mucosal ery...