Prevalence and risk factors for vaginal Candida colonization in women with type 1 and type 2 diabetes

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 2, Issue , 2002, Pages

  de Leon, Ella M ^a   Jacober, Scott J ^b   Sobel, Jack D ^b   Foxman, Betsy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Candida; Diabetes; Vaginitis

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; HEMOGLOBIN A1C; GLYCOSYLATED HEMOGLOBIN; PRE HEMOGLOBIN A, GLYCOSYLATED; PRE-HEMOGLOBIN A, GLYCOSYLATED; PROTEIN PRECURSOR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDA GLABRATA; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE DURATION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GROUPS BY AGE; HEALTH SURVEY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RACE DIFFERENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; RURAL POPULATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; URBAN POPULATION; VAGINA CANDIDIASIS; VAGINA SMEAR; ADOLESCENT; BLOOD; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CANDIDIASIS, VULVOVAGINAL; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN A, GLYCOSYLATED; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREVALENCE; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 18744378563     PISSN: 14712334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-2-1     Document Type: Article

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