Oral candidosis in patients with advanced cancer
| Autor: | David Beighton, Andrew Davies, Susan Brailsford |
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| Rok vydání: | 2006 |
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Male Cancer Research medicine.medical_specialty Palliative care medicine.drug_class medicine.medical_treatment Antibiotics Opportunistic Infections Severity of Illness Index Xerostomia Candidiasis Oral Risk Factors Neoplasms Internal medicine Epidemiology medicine Humans Prospective Studies Intensive care medicine Candida albicans Mycosis Aged Candida Aged 80 and over biology business.industry Palliative Care Middle Aged medicine.disease biology.organism_classification Stomatitis Denture Corpus albicans stomatognathic diseases Oncology Etiology Female Oral Surgery Dentures business |
| Zdroj: | Oral Oncology. 42:698-702 |
| ISSN: | 1368-8375 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.oraloncology.2005.11.010 |
| Popis: | The objectives of the study were to determine the epidemiology, aetiology, clinical features and microbiological aspects of oral candidosis in a cohort of cancer patients receiving specialist palliative care. One hundred and twenty patients participated in the study. Seventy-nine (66%) of the patients had microbiological evidence of oral yeast carriage, whilst 36 (30%) of the patients had combined clinical and microbiological evidence of oral candidosis. Oral candidosis was associated with a poor performance status, the presence of xerostomia, and the presence of dentures; oral candidosis was not associated with the use of oral/parenteral antibiotics, or the use of oral/parenteral corticosteroids. Candida albicans was the predominant organism isolated from the oral swabs of patients with oral candidosis. However, non-C. albicans species were the predominant organism in 25% cases, and a contributing organism in a further 19% cases. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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