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Problems with Candida albicans
Distribution of C. albicans
What is C. albicans?
Symptoms
Health related problems
Favorable conditions
Treatment
Prevention
Cincinnati Children’s
Hospital Medical Center
Patients were getting
oral, genital, epdiermal,
and throat infections
Doctors noticed biofilm
in those locations
Diaper rash in infants
Some fatalities
Grows on medical instruments used inside the
intestinal tract and oral cavity( if the patient is
infected)
Can spread easily if thorough sanitation is not
performed
Patients obtained C. albicans in genitalia, oral cavity,
and throat from improper sanitation of medical
equipment
Patients with deficient immune systems died
Patients that were released exposed their community
for infection
Dimorphic fungus
Switches between
unicellular yeast form
and multicellular
filamentous
Found mostly in the oral
cavity and genitalia of
humans
Can be found on
epidermis of humans
Budding on lateral hyphae
Usual form
Becomes invasive via filamentous hyphae
Biofilms readily form on implantable medical
instruments
Infects host with unicellular yeast
multicellular
filaments develop
Lives in 80% of humans with no harmful effects
hyphae
Budding
Candidiasis
Diaper rash in infants
Deadly to
immunodeficient
humans
HIV patients
Immunodeficiency
disorder
Angular chelitis
Vaginal Yeast Infection
Optimum growth at 37°C
Moist
Places on the body that do not get air
Unclean places on the body
Skin scraping to expose yeast
Growth of a specimen on media
Physical appearance of biofilm
Fungal biofilm
Yeast
Itching
Skin lesion or rash
Smaller lesions next
large lesions
Infection of hair follicles
Skin redness or
inflammation
Located on skin folds
Topical antifungal medications
Exposing the area to air
Oral antifungal medications
General hygiene
Keeping skin folds on the body exposed to air
Elimination of obesity
Good sugar control in diabetics
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In conclusion, C. albicans is a fungal yeast bacterium
that is found mostly in women. Women can transfer
the yeast to men by sexual intercourse or oral sex.
Practicing good hygiene is one way of keeping the
yeast from getting out of balance. If one manages to
contract the yeast infection there are many different
treatments that can subdue the infection. If the yeasts
are not treated in time further proliferation in the
esophagus could suffocate the individual.
Kauffman CA. Candidiasis. In: Goldman L, Ausiello D,
eds. Cecil Medicine . 23rd ed. Philadelphia, Pa:
Saunders Elsevier; 2007:chap 359.