[Vaginal candidiasis: diagnosis and treatment in a primary care clinic].
OBJECTIVE
To assess the frequency of Candida species others than Candida albicans isolation, in patients with chronic as well as relapsing vaginitis. To analyze the clinical pictures and the treatments routinely employed in patients with Candida albicans infection, compared to those with other Candida species infection, in a Primary Care Clinic.


METHODS
Prospective, comparative, transverse study.


METHODS
Primary health center from January, 1995 to May, 1997.


METHODS
Two hundred and thirty four women (234) in ages between 16 and 55 years, with cervicovaginitis and a positive culture to any species of Candida, were the subject of the present study.


RESULTS
From the total of 234 patients studied, 142 (60.5%) were infected by Candida albicans and 92 (39.5%) by other Candida species; no difference in symptomatology was recorded in both groups. Nistatine alone or combined with imidazole derivatives were the antimycotics more commonly employed, with Candida albicans resistance of 9.6% in the first case and 11.2% in the second one.


CONCLUSIONS
It is stressed the importance that has the identification of Candida species causing vaginitis. It is also acknowledged the well handled treatment, despite of the species to be treated.
González-Pedraza Avilés
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Centro de Salud José Castro Villagrana, Universidad Nacional Autónoma México, México, D.F.
Ortiz Zaragoza
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Inzunza Montiel
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Ponce-Rosas
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000935:Antifungal Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D002175:Candida / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D002181:Candidiasis, Vulvovaginal / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000382:microbiology; D004352:Drug Resistance, Microbial; D005194:Family Practice; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007093:Imidazoles / Q000627:therapeutic use; D008800:Mexico; D008875:Middle Aged; D011446:Prospective Studies
D000935:Antifungal Agents; D007093:Imidazoles
Candidiasis vaginal: diagnóstico y tratamiento en el primer nivel de atención médica.