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VAGINAL CANDIDIASIS AND THE ROLE OF THE DIGESTIVE TRACT AS A SOURCE OF INFECTION
Author(s) -
Hilton A. L.,
Warnock D. W.
Publication year - 1975
Publication title -
bjog: an international journal of obstetrics and gynaecology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.157
H-Index - 164
eISSN - 1471-0528
pISSN - 1470-0328
DOI - 10.1111/j.1471-0528.1975.tb00599.x
Subject(s) - medicine , incidence (geometry) , genital tract , candida albicans , gastrointestinal tract , sex organ , female circumcision , gynecology , gastroenterology , physiology , microbiology and biotechnology , biology , physics , genetics , optics
Summary Of 300 female patients seen in a Venereal Diseases clinic, 84 (28. 0 per cent) were found to be harbouring Candida albicans or C. parapsilosis in the genital tract and 33 per cent of these patients had clinical signs of vulvovaginitis. Of the 84 patients, 71.4 per cent harboured yeasts in the ano‐rectal tract; of the remaining 216 patients, 25. 9 per cent harboured yeasts in the ano‐rectal tract. There was no evidence to suggest that the incidence of yeasts in the mouth, ano‐rectal or genital tracts changed with age or use of oral contraception.