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 species are component of normal flora of human being. They are commonly found on the skin throughout gastrointestinal tract and female genital tract particularly higher in vagina during pregnancy. Vaginal yeast infection, also known as vaginal candidiasis, genital candidiasis, or vulvovaginal candidiasis (VVC), is an infection affecting women of all age groups. The increase in the incidence of Candida species over the past two decades is significant and non-albicans Candida species continue to replace C. albicans at most of the clinical sites. Diabetes, immunosuppressive disease or therapies and neutropenia are common risk factors. Other risk factors include the use of oral contraceptives, corticosteroids etc. (Chow et al., 2008). Candida species can cause a wide spectrum of clinical disease involving mucous membrane mainly, skin and nails. The present study was undertaken to assess the prevalence of vaginal infections caused by non albicans Candida and to look for the antifungal susceptibility pattern of the isolates.
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