Open AccessSpecies identification ofCandidaisolates obtained from oral lesions of HIV infected patients
Author(s) -
VP Baradkar,
S Kumar
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
indian journal of dermatology/indian journal of dermatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.395
H-Index - 36
eISSN - 1998-3611
pISSN - 0019-5154
DOI - 10.4103/0019-5154.57622
Subject(s) - candida dubliniensis , candida tropicalis , candida glabrata , candida parapsilosis , fluconazole , candida albicans , microbiology and biotechnology , medicine , amphotericin b , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , corpus albicans , biology , antifungal , virology
A total of 60 patients suspected to have AIDS with oral lesions suggestive of oral candidiasis were studied. Candida species were isolated from 50 patients. Candida albicans was the commonest isolate (70 %) followed Candida parapsilosis(15%), Candida glabrata (7.5%) and Candida tropicalis (5%) respectively. Candida dubliniensis was isolated from a single case only. Though the reports from developed countries show more prevalence of the novel species Candida dubliniensis, in our study it was isolated in a single case. All the patients were treated successfully with oral fluconazole for 7 days except for the patients from which Candida glabrata was isolated, who were treated with Amphotericin B.