Presence of Candida spp. in the oral cavity of heart transplantation XXXX .

@entity1 @entity9841 @entity18873 @entity7408 @entity5132 @entity281 @entity364 @entity375
Candida spp. can lead to @entity281 or even @entity364 particularly among immunocompromised individuals. OBJECTIVE: The aim of the present study was to analyze the presence of Candida spp. among @entity1 subjected to orthotopic heart transplantation. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Oral rinses from 50 @entity1 subjected to orthotopic heart transplantation, aged 13 to 70 years, 40 males and 10 females, were examined. Sex-age-oral conditions matched-control included 50 individuals who were not subjected to any kind of transplantation and were not immunocompromised for any other reason. Counts of @entity375 were expressed as median values of logarithm of cfu/mL and were statistically compared by Mann-Whitney's test. The heart transplant and control groups were compared for the presence of Candida spp. by chi-square test (p<0.05). RESULTS: The results showed statistically significant difference (p=0.001) in the prevalence of Candida spp. between the transplantation and control groups. Counts of @entity375 (cfu/mL) in the transplanted group were significantly higher than in the control group (p=0.005). @entity5132 was the most prevalent species isolated from both groups. CONCLUSIONS: It was concluded that Candida @entity375 counts were higher in the heart transplant recipients than in the controls. There was higher variation of Candida species among the heart transplant @entity1 and the most frequently isolated samples were: @entity5132 , @entity7408 and @entity9841 . Isolates of @entity18873 was not found in either of the groups.
