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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, December 2001, p. 4520-4522, Vol. 39, No. 12
0095-1137/01/$04.00+0   DOI: 10.1128/JCM.39.12.4520-4522.2001
Copyright © 2001, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Recovery of Candida dubliniensis and Other Yeasts from Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Associated Periodontal Lesions

M. A. Jabra-Rizk,1,* S. M. S. Ferreira,1,2 M. Sabet,3 W. A. Falkler,3 W. G. Merz,4 and T. F. Meiller1

Department of Diagnostic Sciences and Pathology1 and Department of OCBS,3 Dental School, University of Maryland, and Department of Pathology, The Johns Hopkins University,4 Baltimore, Maryland, and Department of Oral Diagnostic and Oral Pathology, Faculdade de Odontologia da U. F. do Rio de Janeiro, and F.O.U. Gama Filho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil2

Received 4 June 2001/Returned for modification 7 August 2001/Accepted 2 September 2001

Oral and subgingival samples from periodontal lesions were collected from 54 human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-positive and 20 HIV-negative patients and cultured for yeast species. Of the 54 samples cultured from HIV-positive patients, 44 (82%) were positive for yeast species, of which 29 (66%) were subgingival. A total of 19 (48%) patients were positive for Candida dubliniensis, of which 15 (79%) were colonized in subgingival sites. Seven isolates of Candida glabrata, two isolates of Candida parapsilosis, and one isolate of Saccharomyces cerevisiae were recovered. This study reports for the first time the recovery of C. dubliniensis from subgingival intraoral sites and confirms the presence of Candida species in sites of periodontal disease associated with HIV.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Oral Medicine, Dental School, UMAB, 666 W. Baltimore St., Baltimore, MD 21201. Phone: (410) 706-7628. Fax: (410) 706-0519. E-mail: mrizk{at}umaryland.edu.

Journal of Clinical Microbiology, December 2001, p. 4520-4522, Vol. 39, No. 12
0095-1137/01/$04.00+0   DOI: 10.1128/JCM.39.12.4520-4522.2001
Copyright © 2001, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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