Candida albicans is the most common fungus in the human intestinal microbiota but not in mice. To make a murine sepsis model more closely resemble human sepsis and to explore the role of intestinal C. albicans, in the absence of candidemia, in bacterial sepsis, live- or heat-killed C. albicans was orally administered to mice at 3h prior to cecal ligation and puncture (CLP). A higher mortality r...

Antifungal susceptibility of candida. To perform antifungal testing on candida isolates by disk diffusion method & study its pattern. The present was conducted in the department Microbiology a tertiary care hospital Hyderabad from January 2013 to June 2014, with prior approval Institutional Ethics Committee. designed test Candida Disk Diffusion Method and 102 were subjected using Mueller-Hi...

Inadequate cleaning of removable dentures Sromotes tKe accumulation and adKesion of bio¿lm, which is one of the main causes of failure of these Srostheses &omSlete denture bio¿lm is de¿ned as a dense layer of complex microbial communities embedded in a polymeric matrix, and it is known to contain more than 1011 microorganisms by gram in dry weight 13 7he composition of the denture bio¿lm microb...

Although the last twenty five years have produced tremendous technological advances in solid organ and bone marrow transplantation, a continuing problem for the transplant recipient is infection, with fungi playing a significant role. Risk of fungal infection varies with time following transplantation. The period of intense immuno-suppression between the first and sixth months following solid o...

Objective: Invasive fungal infections caused by Candida species have increased significantly. Candidemia is not only associated with a mortality, but also extends the duration of hospital stay and increases the cost for medical care. Although, the clinical presentations of the patients with candidemia caused by Candida albicans and non-albicans Candida species are indistinguishable, the suscept...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Nosocomial Candida infections are an important cause of morbidity and mortality in critically ill patients. Although there is growing evidence that candidemia develops primarily as a consequence of endogenous colonization, hospital outbreaks of Candida infection are not uncommon. To examine the prevalence and consequence of Candida colonization in critically ill patients ...

CHROMagar Candida is a selective and differential chromogenic medium that has been shown to be useful for identification of Candida albicans, Candida krusei, Candida tropicalis, and perhaps Candida glabrata. Colony morphology and color have been well defined when CHROMagar Candida has been used to isolate yeast directly from clinical specimens, including stool, urine, respiratory, vaginal, orop...

BACKGROUND Detection of Ureaplasma, Mycoplasma and Candida spp. in the vagina during pregnancy has previously been associated with preterm birth (PTB). However, the prevalence of these microorganisms and the associated obstetric risks (likely to be population-specific) have not been determined in Australian women; furthermore, in the case of Ureaplasma spp., very few studies have attempted char...

BACKGROUND Candida spp. are dimorphic fungi in the family Cryptococcaceae. Infections with Candida spp. are usually rare conditions in dogs, but immunocompromised patients have a higher risk for developing invasive candidal infections. CASE PRESENTATION A 5-year-old male Boxer, positive to Leishmania infantum, was referred to the Veterinary Teaching Hospital of the Department of Veterinary Me...