Phenotype and genotype of Candida albicans strains isolated from pregnant women with recurrent vaginitis.

doi:10.1023/a:1006878908668

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Phenotype and genotype of Candida albicans strains isolated from pregnant women with recurrent vaginitis.

Mycopathologia - 1 Jan 1997

Maffei C M, Paula C R, Mazzocato T S, Franceschini S

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Fourteen out of 80 pregnant women receiving prenatal care presented signs and symptoms of recurrent vaginal candidiasis. Candida albicans strains were isolated from 12 patients (85.7%), and these were submitted to morphotyping (morphological characteristics of the colony), antifungal typing (patt...

Topics

Candida albicans
Candidiasis, Vulvovaginal
DNA Fingerprinting
Female
Genotype
Humans
Mycological Typing Techniques
Phenotype
Pregnancy
Pregnancy Complications, Infectious
Recurrence
Vaginitis

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