title: [Vaginal candidiasis: diagnosis and treatment in a primary care clinic].
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Centro de Salud José Castro Villagrana, Universidad Nacional Autónoma México, México, D.F.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: González-Pedraza Avilés
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Ortiz Zaragoza
authors.forename: A E
authors.initials: AE
authors.lastname: Inzunza Montiel
authors.forename: E R
authors.initials: ER
authors.lastname: Ponce-Rosas
mesh_terms: 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
chemical_list: D000935:Antifungal Agents; D007093:Imidazoles
vernacular_title: Candidiasis vaginal: diagnóstico y tratamiento en el primer nivel de atención médica.