Candida albicans is an opportunistic-pathogen fungus which cause a variety of diseases in human, such as oral thrush, skin lesion, vulvovaginitis and gastrointestinal candidiasis. The oral cavity's mucous is a good habitat for the growth of micro-organisms. It is due to the ecological environment which support colonization, including the Candida. Several steps of Candida colonization in the ora…
Candida sp are the most common fungal pathogens causing fatal health care associated infections. Among the genus of Candida, Candida albicans is the most frequent species isolated from patients. The notorious C. albicans infection is the ability of th is dimorphic fungus to form biofilm. Biofilm has been pointed as a dynamic phenotypic switching in bacteria and fungi, which may result in higher…
Background: Elderly often suffer malnutrition and oral candidiasis. Candida albicans (C. albicans) which is the most prominent cause of oral candidiasis, is one of commensal oral micro-flora. Nutritional status affect the characteristic of saliva. Saliva is the regulator in the development of C. albicans from comensal into pathogen. Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determining the corr…
Background: Indonesia has a variety of plants that can be used for medicines. One of the medicinal plants is Nigella sativa. Nigella sativa has been used for medicinal purposes, both as medicinal herb and as medicinal oil. It contains saponin and atsiri oils that have antifungal, antimicrobial and antibacterial effects. Nigella sativa has been suggested as denture cleansers since it can inhibit…
kayu manis atau cinnamomum burmannii merupakan salah satu tumbuhan yang biasa digunakan sebgai penyedap masakan tetapi dapt juga digunakan sebagai obat tradisional, salah satunya digunakan sebagai obat antijamur. pemanfaatan kayu manis sebagai obat antijamur mengingat masih besarnya angka infeksi jamur di indonesia khusunya infeksi yang disebabkan oleh jamur candida albicans yang dari data yaya…
Aim Candida spp. infection commonly occur in immunocompromised patients. Biochemical assay for identifi cation of Candida spp. is time-consuming and shows many undetermined results. Specific detection for antibody, antigen and metabolites of Candida spp. had low sensitivity and specifi city. In this study, we developed a rapid diagnostic method, Multiplex-PCR, to identify Candida spp. Methods F…
The germ tube test was carried out to identity the yeast. Candida albicans (C. Albicans). Meanwhile, chlamydospora another morphological characteristic of C. Albicans, are formed when C. Albicans is inclbatel in cornmeal or rice tween agar.Agar tajin, product of boiled rice, is consist of carbohydrate could be as alternative media to indentify C albicans. Making agar tajin is casy and cheap. Ag…