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Dantwan Smith
 Problems with Candida albicans
 Distribution of C. albicans
 What is C. albicans?
 Symptoms
 Health related problems
 Favorable conditions
 Treatment
 Prevention
 Cincinnati Children’s
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Hospital Medical Center
Patients were getting
oral, genital, epdiermal,
and throat infections
Doctors noticed biofilm
in those locations
Diaper rash in infants
Some fatalities
 Grows on medical instruments used inside the
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intestinal tract and oral cavity( if the patient is
infected)
Can spread easily if thorough sanitation is not
performed
Patients obtained C. albicans in genitalia, oral cavity,
and throat from improper sanitation of medical
equipment
Patients with deficient immune systems died
Patients that were released exposed their community
for infection
 Dimorphic fungus
 Switches between
unicellular yeast form
and multicellular
filamentous
 Found mostly in the oral
cavity and genitalia of
humans
 Can be found on
epidermis of humans
 Budding on lateral hyphae
 Usual form
 Becomes invasive via filamentous hyphae
 Biofilms readily form on implantable medical
instruments
 Infects host with unicellular yeast
multicellular
filaments develop
 Lives in 80% of humans with no harmful effects
hyphae
Budding
 Candidiasis
 Diaper rash in infants
 Deadly to
immunodeficient
humans
 HIV patients
 Immunodeficiency
disorder
 Angular chelitis
 Vaginal Yeast Infection
 Optimum growth at 37°C
 Moist
 Places on the body that do not get air
 Unclean places on the body
 Skin scraping to expose yeast
 Growth of a specimen on media
 Physical appearance of biofilm
Fungal biofilm
Yeast
 Itching
 Skin lesion or rash
 Smaller lesions next
large lesions
 Infection of hair follicles
 Skin redness or
inflammation
 Located on skin folds
 Topical antifungal medications
 Exposing the area to air
 Oral antifungal medications
 General hygiene
 Keeping skin folds on the body exposed to air
 Elimination of obesity
 Good sugar control in diabetics
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 In conclusion, C. albicans is a fungal yeast bacterium
that is found mostly in women. Women can transfer
the yeast to men by sexual intercourse or oral sex.
Practicing good hygiene is one way of keeping the
yeast from getting out of balance. If one manages to
contract the yeast infection there are many different
treatments that can subdue the infection. If the yeasts
are not treated in time further proliferation in the
esophagus could suffocate the individual.
 Kauffman CA. Candidiasis. In: Goldman L, Ausiello D,
eds. Cecil Medicine . 23rd ed. Philadelphia, Pa:
Saunders Elsevier; 2007:chap 359.