Vulvovaginal candidiasis: prevalence of different Candida species in the Liege region
Senterre, J.M.; Carpentier, M.; Foidart, J.M.
Revue Medicale de Liege 60(11): 882-884
2005
ISSN/ISBN: 0370-629X PMID: 16402534 Document Number: 593489
We calculated the prevalences of different yeast species isolated from more than 20,000 vulvovaginal specimens carried out at the CHR hospital in Liege. To assess the value of the observed relative frequencies, the culture results of 149 samples were confronted with those of a real-time PCR technique of fungal identification. With a prevalence close to 90%, Candida albicans remains the largely dominant species. In contrast with other teams, we observed no increase of the prevalences of Candida non-albicans species.