Saturday, July 4, 2009

KANDIDOSIS VULVOVAGINITIS

DEFINITION
Kandidosis vulvovaginitis or also called vulvovaginitis is kandidiasis infection vagina and/or vulva of acute or subakut caused by Candida species,
usually species by Candida albicans (81%) or sometimes T. Glabrata (16%), other species (C.tropicalis, C.stellatoidea, C.pseudotropicalis, C.krusei) are very rare, only around 3%.

Epidemiology
Frequency of women's experience kandidosis vulvovaginitis is 20-50% of all women, another source said kandidosis vulvovaginitis is the frequency of 45% of all cases of vaginitis.
Candida culture found on the woman who asimtomatik as much as 20-50%, and approximately 75% experienced by women in the United States,
there are no racial differences in predileksi kandidosis vulvovaginitis, and generally the age of adolescents and adults.

Etiology
The cause is tersering Candida albicans that can diisolasi from the skin, mouth, vagina and mukosa membrane feses normal people.
Candida microorganisms grow as komensal at 40-80% healthy human form blastospora without capsule oval shape,
and reproduce through the formation of the shoot, hifa a thin, lengthwise, and can not fork tunbuh in culture or in vivo as a sign of the disease is active / budding.

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