2003, Cilt 33, Sayı 4, Sayfa(lar) 323-328 |
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Virulence Factors and Susceptibility Patterns of Candida Strains Isolated from Patients with Vulvovaginal Candidiasis |
Ayşe Kalkancı1, Semra Kuştimur1, Gülendam Bozdayı1, Aydan Biri2 |
1Gazi University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Microbiology, Ankara 2Gazi University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Ankara |
Keywords: Candida, virulence factors, adhesion, proteinase, phospholipase, antifungal susceptibility |
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Candida strains have different virulence factors to colonize vagina and to remain permanent there. The most important factors are the ability to adhere to epithelial cells and to produce the extracellular enzymes such as proteinases and phospholipases. In this study, we investigated the adherence ability, enzyme productions and the susceptibility patterns of the Candida strains. It was shown that the majority of Candida albicans strains were enzyme producers and were also adhesive to vaginal epithelial cells. |
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