Carriage of Candida species in oral cavities of HIV infected patients in South India

Mycoses

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 44-48

  Girish Kumar, C P ^a,b   Menon, Thangam ^a   Rajasekaran, S ^c   Sekar, B ^d   Prabu, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS   (India)

^b INDIAN COUNCIL OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (India)

^c Government Hospital of Thoracic Medicine   (India)

^d Central Leprosy Teaching and Research Institute India   (India)

Author keywords

Candida; Genotype; HIV; Multiple; Oral; South India

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME DNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDA KRUSEI; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNGAL COLONIZATION; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; INDIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUTH CAVITY; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; THRUSH;

ADULT; CANDIDA; CARRIER STATE; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MOUTH; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, FUNGAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL;

CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS;

EID: 57649158472     PISSN: 09337407     EISSN: 14390507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0507.2008.01534.x     Document Type: Article

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