Candida carriage and Candida dubliniensis in oropharyngeal samples of type-1 diabetes mellitus patients.
The carriage of Candida dubliniensis in the oral cavities of type-1 diabetic patients were investigated. Of 230 patients 81 (35%) had Candida spp. in their oral cavity; C. albicans was the most frequently isolated species (58%). No C. dubliniensis was found in the study population.
Department of Microbiology and Clinical Microbiology, Ankara University Medical Faculty, Ankara, Turkey. tekeli@dialup.ankara.edu.tr
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D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002175:Candida / Q000145:classification / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D002180:Candidiasis, Oral / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000382:microbiology; D002353:Carrier State / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000382:microbiology; D003922:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1 / Q000382:microbiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009960:Oropharynx / Q000382:microbiology*; D015995:Prevalence