Authors: M. Viktorinová 1; D. Koukalová 2 Authors‘ workplace: Dermatovenerologická klinika LF UP, Olomouc 1 Published in: Čes-slov Derm, , 2000, No. 4, p. 147-151 Category:
In a group of 80 patients with chronic vaginal candidiasis and 23 healthy women the results ofintradermal skin tests with antigens of microbial species Candida albicans, Candida glabrata,Candida krusei, Propionibacterum acnes were compared mutually and with controls, i.e. the vehicleof the diagnostic antigen. The tests were performed on the palmar surface of the forearm, theimmediate reading of the reaction was taken after 20 minutes, the delayed one after 24 hours.Statistical analysis of immediate skin tests revealed in the sick women, as compared with thehealthy ones, a significant hypersensitivity only to antigens of Candida albicans (p
Key words: skin tests - microbial antigens - chronic vaginal candidiasis
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