Oral yeast carriage in patients with advanced cancer

Oral Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 79-84

  Davies, A N ^a   Brailsford, S ^b   Broadley, K ^c   Beighton, D ^b  

^a BRISTOL HAEMATOLOGY AND ONCOLOGY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c ROYAL MARSDEN HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Candida; Candidiasis, oral; Neoplasms; Palliative care; Yeasts

Indexed keywords

CHROMOGENIC SUBSTRATE; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; FUNGAL DNA; FUNGAL RNA; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 26S;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; BRONCHUS TUMOR; CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CARCINOMA; CLASSIFICATION; CULTURE MEDIUM; DENTURE; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; INTESTINE TUMOR; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROSTATE TUMOR; RISK FACTOR; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SALIVA; SECRETION; STATISTICS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; BRONCHIAL NEOPLASMS; CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CARCINOMA; CHROMOGENIC COMPOUNDS; CULTURE MEDIA; DENTURES; DNA, FUNGAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, FUNGAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RISK FACTORS; RNA, FUNGAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SALIVA; SECRETORY RATE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STATISTICS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 0036010886     PISSN: 09020055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.0902-0055.2001.00095.x     Document Type: Article

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