Autor: |
Liliane Taverne-Ghadwal, Martin Kuhns, Timo Buhl, Marco H. Schulze, Weina Joseph Mbaitolum, Lydia Kersch, Michael Weig, Oliver Bader, Uwe Groß |
Jazyk: |
angličtina |
Rok vydání: |
2022 |
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Zdroj: |
Frontiers in Microbiology, Vol 13 (2022) |
Druh dokumentu: |
article |
ISSN: |
1664-302X |
DOI: |
10.3389/fmicb.2022.844069 |
Popis: |
Oral candidiasis remains a common problem in HIV-infected individuals, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. Here, we performed the first study in Chad on the prevalence of oral yeasts carriage and oral candidiasis in HIV-positive subjects from southern Chad and analyzed the influence of HAART, CD4+ T-cell numbers, and antimycotics in 589 patients. These patients were recruited from a specialized medical center for HIV patients in Sarh and from a rural medical health dispensary in the vicinity, including a total of 384 HIV-positive and 205 HIV-negative individuals. Yeasts obtained from oral specimen were identified by MALDI-TOF MS and their antifungal susceptibility profiles determined. The overall prevalence of yeast colonization and symptomatic oral candidiasis in HIV-infected patients was 25.1%. The prevalence of oral candidiasis was higher in untreated than in HAART-treated HIV-positive patients (16% vs. 2%; p |
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