National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
Candida is a part of the normal flora in healthy individuals, and is usually conï¬ned to the skin and mucosal surfaces of the oral cavity, gastrointestinal and urogenital tracts, and vagina. However it can cause a wide variety of infections in immunosuppressed patients of long term broad – spectrum antibiotics, steroids or other immunosuppressive agents, diabetes mellitus, AIDS, Malignancy, Neutropenia1. Although the majority of infections are caused by Candida albicans, Non-C. albicans Candida (NCAC) species are emerging as important pathogen in humans 2,4,5,6,7. Our study included 130 clinical isolates which showed gram positive budding yeasts cells with or without pseudohyphae. We correlated Candida isolation with various risk factors and found that 54 % of the patients from whom candida was isolated had been treated with >2 antibiotics,15%treated with >3 antibiotics, 17%Diabetis Mellitus, 16%Neutropenia, 8 % Tuberculosis and Treatment with Steroids, 6% Malignancy, 2% HIV.
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