Aim/Introduction: To detect salivary glucose levels and for the determination, if salivary glucose levels could be used as a non-invasive tool to monitor glycemic control in diabetics. Furthermore, the evaluation of relationship between salivary glucose levels and candidal carriage alongwith identification of strain diversity and antifungal susceptibility was also carried out. Materials and met...

background: fungal corneal ulcer is the most dangerous and challenging type of infective keratitis.  since most of the ophthalmic antifungal drops are scarce and expensive in developing countries, attempts have been made to study fungicidal property of some readily available antiseptic agents as a substitute.  povidone iodine (pi) and chlorhexidine gluconate (chx) has been postulated to be effe...

This in vitro study aimed to determine the susceptibility of oral specimens and ATCC lineages of Candida albicans for five endodontic sealers, which were pure and associated with two antifungal drugs, and to analyze their effect on the physical properties. For this purpose, 30 lineages of C. albicans, collected from the oral cavity of patients assisted at the endodontics clinic of the Universid...

Presently appearance of resistance to antifungal agents among Aspergillus species is dramatically increasing. The objective of this study was to look at the in vitro activities of antifungal drugs against Iranian clinical (from nail, bronchoalveolar lavage, paranasal sinus) isolated A. flavus strains. The susceptibility of 45 aflatoxigenic and non-aflatoxigenic Aspergillus flavus strains were e...

BACKGROUND Definitive antifungal therapy is typically based on Candida species and clinical status, rather than susceptibility reports. Antifungal susceptibility testing is available, but the impact on treatment decisions is unknown. The purpose of this study was to assess antifungal therapy in hospitalized patients with candidaemia during the time period between the start of empirical therapy ...

oil on 15 clinical strains of Candida spp., isolated from humans and dogs and to determine if there is a difference in susceptibility between human and dog isolates. Sampling in patients with stomatitis was done by swabbing the denture or oral mucosa swab while sampling in dogs was done by swabbing the oral cavity mucosa after stomatitis has been diagnosed. In order to investigate the antifunga...

voriconazole is an antifungal triazole, approved for management of invasive fungal diseases in patients. it is absorbed during two hours and its serum levels will be above 90%, based on the underlying factors, when the drug is administered orally. voriconazole shows a propotional increase in an area under the plasma concentration-time curve (auc), with increasing dose. plasma protein binding of...

The effect of inoculum form, i.e. ungerminated conidia, germinated conidia and hyphae on the in vitro antifungal susceptibility of 12 strains belonging to Aspergillus spp. was compared using a broth microdilution method. The isolates were tested three times on different days against amphotericin B, itraconazole and ketoconazole. There were no significant differences between MICs obtained with t...