title: [Vulvovaginal candidiasis: prevalence of different Candida species in the Liege region].
abstract: We calculated the prevalences of different yeast species isolated from more than 20,000 vulvovaginal specimens carried out at the CHR hospital in Liege. To assess the value of the observed relative frequencies, the culture results of 149 samples were confronted with those of a real-time PCR technique of fungal identification. With a prevalence close to 90%, Candida albicans remains the largely dominant species. In contrast with other teams, we observed no increase of the prevalences of Candida non-albicans species.
authors.affiliation: Service de biologie clinique, CHR de la Citadelle, Liège.
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Senterre
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Carpentier
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Foidart
mesh_terms: D001530:Belgium / Q000453:epidemiology; D002175:Candida / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000472:pathogenicity*; D002176:Candida albicans / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000472:pathogenicity; D002181:Candidiasis, Vulvovaginal / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000382:microbiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015995:Prevalence