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Effects of smoking on the prevalence and intraoral distribution of Candida albicans
Author(s) -
Oliver D. E.,
Shillitoe E. J.
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
journal of oral pathology and medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.887
H-Index - 83
eISSN - 1600-0714
pISSN - 0904-2512
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0714.1984.tb01424.x
Subject(s) - candida albicans , corpus albicans , saliva , cigarette smoking , medicine , tongue , fungus , microbiology and biotechnology , physiology , biology , pathology , botany
To find out whether smoking affects the prevalence and intraoral distribution of Candida albicans , swabs and saliva samples from 100 healthy persons, smokers and non‐smokers, were cultured for the presence of this fungus. The prevalence was the same (35%) in both smokers and non‐smokers. Among carriers, the mean concentration of C. albicans colony‐forming units in saliva of smokers was twice that of the non‐smokers, and the isolation frequency of C. albicans at each of 5 mucosai sites was also higher in smokers than in non‐smokers. However, a wide variation was found, and these differences were not significant at the 0.05 level. Men were carriers more often than women (p < 0.025), and the mucosal site from which C. albicans was recovered most often was the posterior dorsum of the tongue. Although it has previously been claimed that cigarette smoking influences the carrier state of C. albicans , the present study suggests that the effect is only slight.