Isolation and identification of candida albicans from children patient with candidiasis from Ramadi city, Iraq

Abstract

Candida albicans are one of the members of a fungus that normally lives mucosal and can cause diseases in humans, cutaneous, mucosal, and disseminated invasive infections, especially in babies. The study aimed to isolate and identify Candida pp that caused Oral candidiasis in children in Ramadi city, Iraq. About 135 samples were collected from babies aged between one day and a year in both genders.The result of morphological and biochemical tests showed for pathogenic samples that among 90 isolates of Candida species, the predominant type was the Candida albicans which accounted for 39 isolates (%43.33), 24 samples from C. tropicalis (24. 66%), 15 samples from C. krusie (% 16.66) and 12 samples from C.dublieninsis (13.33 %).This study included the evaluation of C. albicans isolates, phospholipase enzyme production on egg yolk agar, and hemolytic activity on sugar-enriched sheep blood agar.