Women with recurrent vaginal candidosis were treated until the infection cleared and were then given one clotrimazole 500 mg vaginal tablet a month or an identical placebo as prophylaxis. Of 21 women who received placebo, 16 developed symptoms or signs within three months, compared with nine of 17 women given active treatment. Women who relapsed were treated and then given active prophylaxis on...

The therapeutic efficacy of a single dose 500 mg tablet of clotrimazole was compared with two 300 mg tablets of isoconazole in an open randomised study of 100 patients with vaginal candidosis confirmed by mycological culture. One week after treatment 100% of the clotrimazole treated patients and 98% of the isoconazole treated group gave mycologically negative results. Five weeks after treatment...

Aspergillosis and candidosis remain the most prevalent opportunistic fungal infections in immunocompromised patients, but diseases caused by the Zygomycetes have become of increasing importance. Exposure to antimycotic drugs with no activity against zygomycetes may be a new risk factor and an explanation for the increasing incidence of zygomycosis. The latter infection occurs only rarely in imm...

Candida species constitute a part of the human oral commensal flora in 2 to 71 percent healthy subjects. Several previous studies have reported that tobacco smoking, either alone or combination with other systemic local factors, is associated increased candidal colonization development candidosis. It has been suggested cigarette smoking might lead localized epithelial alterations allowing colon...