Original scientific paper
Interaction between Candida albicans and pathogenic bacteria in the etiology of stomatitis prothetica
Ana Cekić-Arambašin
; School of Dental Medicine, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Krešimir Kraljević
; School of Dental Medicine, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Kristian Temmer
; School of Dental Medicine, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Mirjana Palaveršić
; Djelatnost za zaštitu zubi, usta i čeljusti, Medicinski Centar Pula, Hrvatska
Abstract
This study was conduced in order to find out whether there is a symbiotic relationship between some pathogenic bacteria and Candida albicans abiding beneath the prosthetic substitute, related to its functional value. The study was mainly induced by certain literature attitudes on the etiology of oral mucositis in the subjects with mobile prosthetic substitutes that still have to be clarified. A group of 53 subjects with palatitis and funstionally inadequate mobile total prostheses was clinically and microbiogically examined and compared to 33 subjects with palatitis and functionally normal mobile total prosthetic substitutes. The sandard microbiological methods were employed to identify fungi and pathogenic bacteria found at the sites of pathologic oral alterations., The results revealed Candida albicans to be present in 68.3%, whereas among others enterobacteria predominated and were detected in 34.2% of cases. No association could be found between the presence of Candida albicans and the prosthesis functional value.
Keywords
Candida albicans; stomatitis prothetica
Hrčak ID:
105265
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Publication date:
15.9.1986.
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