Oral Carriage Rate of Candida Species in Diabetic Patients

Abstract

Background: 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. Objective: find the relation between diabetes and its control on oral carriage of Candida. Methods: 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. Results: 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. Conclusion: 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

Keywords

• Diabetes,
• oral carriage,
• Candida