Oral Moniliasis in the Newborn and Neonatal Morbidity

Risk Factor Determination and Antifungal Susceptibility Patterns of Candida in Neonatal Oral Candidiasis

“…Hand carriage rate among health care workers in seven surgical ICU across in USA have been found to be of around 30% 20 . The species of Candida causing oral thrush and colonization in this study were similar to that reported by others 17 .Two earlier Indian studies, however have documented higher isolation rates of C. tropicalis, C. pseudotropicalis and C. stellatoidea from oral specimens 16,21 . In the present study a higher 17 .…”

“…Deorukhkar S.C et al 13 in their study have shown that resistant rate of Candida to fluconazole and amphotericin B was 27.3% and 5.8% respectively. This study depicts Candida tropicalis was the commonest species (44.4%), isolated from blood samples, as seen in different studies 21,22 . It is clear from the study that Candida albicans is still the commonest pathogen causing oropharyngeal candidiasis, but in case of invasive candidiasis non albicans Candida species are the mainly responsible, those are highly resistant to fluconazole.…”

Virulence Factors of Yeasts Isolated From Oral Lesions

“…The general predisposing factors are diabetes mellitus, chronic illnesses 4 , acquired or inborn immunodeficiency, malignancies, and malnutrition 5 . The iatrogenic factors like wide spectrum antibiotics, corticosteroid therapy chemotherapy and local trauma 6 .…”

An Epidemic of Thrush in a Premature Nursery

“…20% of the babies with clinical symptoms of thrush had been prem ature. Kaul (1960) also found a relatively high infection rate among pre m ature infants in India.…”