International Workshop on Oral and Gastrointestinal Candidosis: From Pathology to Therapy. Introduction.
Oral candidosis is the manifestation of candidosis earliest described. In fact pertinent cases are already to be found in the corpus hippocraticum. Exactly 150 years ago a fungus was found in lesions of orogastrointestinal candidosis by the German surgeon Langenbeck. For a long time, there was much dispute on the proper term for the most important causative organism of thrush and correspondingly for the proper name of the diseases caused. Today, Candida albicans is accepted by virtually everybody and the discussion on the name of the disease only focuses on the terms candidiasis and candidosis of which the latter seems preferable. Facing the scientific progress in the field of Candida and candidosis research and the permanent change of both the causative organism and the corresponding disease in the age of the HIV-infection (AIDS), it seems rewarding to review epidemiology, microbiology, nosology and treatment of oral and gastrointestinal candidosis.
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D002176:Candida albicans / Q000302:isolation & purification; D002177:Candidiasis / Q000382:microbiology*; D002180:Candidiasis, Oral / Q000382:microbiology*; D005767:Gastrointestinal Diseases / Q000382:microbiology*; D006801:Humans; D009626:Terminology as Topic