Presença de candida spp. Na cavidade bucal de lactentes durante os primeiros quatro meses d vida

• Autor(a) principal: Scherma, Alexandre Prado [UNESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2002
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/154666; http://www.athena.biblioteca.unesp.br/exlibris/bd/cathedra/19-06-2017/000173857.pdf
• topic: Candida; Odontopediatria; Candida albicans; Higiene bucal; Recém-nascido

Oral candidosis is one of the most frequent mycotic infectious diseases of the oral cavity and there is increased susceptibility to this infection during the neonatal period due to immaturity of the defense mechanisms and the lack of a balanced buccal microbiota. To verify the presence of Candida spp. in the oral cavity of infants were examined initially a hundred babies from which were collected material of the lingual dorsum with swabs in the first 24 hours of life. Thirty-three newborn of this group were accompanied during the first 120 days of life and were submitted monthly to a material collection of the oral cavity and an evaluation of general conditions of health, nutrition and hygiene. The analysis of the material collected during this period showed positivity to Candida ssp. in 64 (48,5%) of the 132 samples. Disease was observed in 27,3% of those 33 newborns. Candida albicans was the most frequent species (44,6%) and it was present in nine of the 11 cases of oral candidosis. The anamnesis showed that the possible risk factors were pacifier use, bottle feeding and introduction of different food types. It was concluded that Candida albicans is the prevalent species in this age band