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- Title
ALIMENTARY CANDIDA ALBICANS AND NAPKIN RASHES.
- Authors
Dixon, Peter N.; Warin, Robert P.; English, Mary P.
- Abstract
Specimens of faeces from 217 children with napkin rashes aged less than 3 months were examined for the presence of Candida albicans The 85 Infants from whose faeces C. albicans was isolated were divided into 2 groups. The children in one group were treated with oral and local nystatin. and those in the other group were given an oral placebo and local nystatin. Further specimens of faeces were examined 2 weeks and 2 months after starting treatment. The children who received oral nystatin were less likely than the others to have C. albicans in subsequent faecal specimens. and their napkin rashes were less likely to relapse; but no differences reached statistical significance. One- third of the children who received the oral placebo also lost the C. albicans from their faeces within 2 weeks, and it is suggested that host factors determine whether or not infection by C. albicans is transitory or is followed by a period of commensalism.
- Subjects
CRYPTOCOCCACEAE; INFANTS; NAPKINS; CANDIDA; CANDIDA albicans; BLASTOMYCETES
- Publication
British Journal of Dermatology, 1972, Vol 86, Issue 5, p458
- ISSN
0007-0963
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1365-2133.1972.tb16097.x