Oral carriage rate of candida species in diabetic patients

ABSTRACT

It is well known that oral carriage of Candida species increase in many situations, like obesity, debility, leukemia, viral infection, use of certain drugs in addition to diabetes mellitus. Find the relation between diabetes and its control on oral carriage of Candida. Thirty four hundred oral swabs from diabetic patients 67% are females and 33% are males, 41.7% are type 1 diabetes and 58.3% are type 2.different culture media are used. We found that 37.9% of diabetics had oral carriage, older age group had more but the difference is not significant statistically P>0.05, in addition females carry more Candida than males P<0.05, while type of diabetes had no effect on oral carriage we found that control of diabetes had significant effect P<0.01. There is high carriage rate of Candida species in oral cavity of diabetic patients 37.9%, the rate of carriage increase in females and those with poor control. Candida albicans is the most common type with all the associated factors