background and objectives: vulvovaginal candidiasis is a common fungal infection among women during reproductive ages. although, candida albicans is accounted as the main etiologic agent of vaginitis, non- albicans species have arisen during last years. resistant to antifungal drugs especially, fluconazole has been more reported by researchers from around the world. the aims of this study were ...

conclusions the results of our study showed that non-albicans species of candida are more frequent than c. albicans in patients with vvc. this result is in line with some recent studies indicating that non-albicans species of candida must be considered in gynecology clinics due to the reported azole resistance in these species. results out of 234 patients with vulvovaginitis, 66 (28.2%) patient...

Oropharyngeal candidiasis continues to be considered the most common opportunistic disease in Aids patients. This study was designed to investigate species distribution, serotype and antifungal susceptibility profile among Candida spp. isolated from the oral cavity of Aids patients recruited from six Brazilian university centers. Oral swabs from 130 Aids patients were plated onto CHROMagar Cand...

This study was performed to investigate the use of chromogenic tube and methyl blue-Sabouraud agar for the presumptive identification of Candida albicans. 124 clinical isolates, including 111 C.albicans and 13 Candida spp strains, which had been identified by morphology on cornmeal tween 80 agar and Vitek automated identification system, were included. Three different identification procedures,...

OBJECTIVE To investigate if introital and vaginal flushing samples inoculated on chromogenic agar could increase the recovery rate and rapid identification of Candida and non-albicans species, as compared to culture of posterior vaginal fornix samples on Sabouraud agar and speciation of isolates by biochemical tests. METHODS Samples from the introitus and the posterior vaginal fornix and vagi...

BACKGROUND Diabetes mellitus as a chronic metabolic disease occurs in patients with partial or complete deficiency of insulin secretion or disorder in action of insulin on tissue. The disease is known to provide conditions for overgrowth of Candida species. Candida spp. cause candidiasis by many virulence factors such as esterase, hemolysin and phospholipase. OBJECTIVES This study aimed to co...

results in this study, 45 (13.4 %) urine samples were positive for candida species (17 males and 28 females). the most common isolated yeast was candida albicans (34%), followed by c. glabrata (32.1%), c. tropicalis (9.4%), other candida species (22.6%), and rhodotorula species (1.9%). the mean serum levels of mbl were 0.85 ± 0.01 ng/ml and 1.02 ± 0.03 ng/ml among candiduric patients and contro...

Objective: To evaluate the alpha-defensin (α-DF) genes polymorphism in women with vulvovaginal candidiasis and recurrence. Methods: This observational study included clinical vaginal secretion samples collected over four years from 88 women, ranging in age from 18 to 65 years, from medical centers of São Paulo and Mogi das Cruzes, Brazil. Thirty-six of these women were asymptomatic (control gro...

background: lichen planus is a common mucocutaneous disease with unknown etiology. immunodeficiency is a known predisposing factor to this disease. oral candidiasis which is an opportunistic fungal infection, commonly affects healthy and immune-compromised patients. candida has different species bearing different treatments. in this study, researchers aimed to detect the frequency and colonizat...

BACKGROUND Oral Candida colonization and its relation with predisposing factors in HIV-infected patients have received wide concerns during recent decades. In this study, we investigated asymptomatic oral Candida carriage rate, species distribution and antifungal susceptibility of 604 HIV-infected patients and 851 healthy individuals in Kunming, Yunnan Province of China. METHODS Mucosal swab ...