Yasser Muwafaq Mehdi
Department of Biology, college of education for pure sciences, Bangalore, IraqPublications
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Research
A study of anti-fungal resistance strains of Candida albicans yeast which isolated from clinical specimens of women Suffering from vaginal infections in Baqubah city
Author(s): Yasser Muwafaq Mehdi*, Rabab Majead Abed and Hadi R. Rasheed Al-Taai
Vaginal swabs were collected from 40 ladies suffering from vaginal infections, their ages ranged between 20-50 years, attending the consulting clinic at Al-Batool Teaching Hospital in Baqubah for the period from December /2020 to February /2021.for married women. The samples that gave a positive test result for Candida albican infection were 20 samples The remaining 20 were negative. Of the 20 positive cases, 17 were pregnant women, their ages ranged between 20-30 years, and the non-pregnant women were 3 cases infected with Candida albicans, and their ages ranged between 31-50 years. Therefore, the infection rate of Candida albicans for the sample group was 80%, of which 59.4% were infected with C. albicans. Positive samples taken from pregnant women and 40.6% of samples taken from non-pregnant women. By using the Kirby-Bauer standard disk diffusion method, it was possible to assess t.. Read More»