The oral yeast flora of 10-year-old schoolchildren.
The yeast flora of the hard palate mucosa and pooled saliva of 122 schoolchildren (average age 9 years 10 months, 63 males, 59 females) has been studied in detail. Of the population sampled, 71.3% carried oral yeasts. The carriage was approximately 3 times greater in females than in males. The yeast isolates were Candida albicans 71% Saccharomyces spp. 19.7% and Candida tropicalis 8.6%. No isolates of Torulopsis spp. or Rhodotorula spp. were recovered. 71.5% of the Candida albicans isolates were serotype A and 26.3% were serotype B.
D002176:Candida albicans / Q000145:classification / Q000302:isolation & purification; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010159:Palate / Q000382:microbiology*; D012463:Saliva / Q000382:microbiology*; D012703:Serotyping; D012737:Sex Factors; D015003:Yeasts / Q000302:isolation & purification*