@article{ajmr2020831,
author={{Musa, Suhndh A. M. and Magzoub, Mamoun and Alhassan, Ahmed S. A. and Hammad, Nazik Mohamed Abdalla},
title={Prevalence of <i>Candida</i> spp. Isolated from Urine Samples of Pregnant Women from Kassala State, Sudan},
journal={American Journal of Microbiological Research},
volume={8},
number={3},
pages={79--82},
year={2020},
url={http://pubs.sciepub.com/ajmr/8/3/1},
issn={2328-4137},
abstract={A urinary tract infection (UTI) is a major disease that affects people of all age groups. Women are more susceptible to UTI than men especially pregnancy, mainly due to the different structural features make easy contamination of the UTI with fecal flora. <i>Candida</i> is one of pathogenic which causing this problem. A total of 196 Clean-Catch midstream urine samples were collected from pregnancy referred to Kassala new Hospital and Abdurrahman Elmobark Medical center, their ages between 15 to 40 year old. GramsĄŻ staining, chlamydospores formation and Chromogenic Agar medium used to differentiate between <i>Candida</i> spp. 17 (8.67%) were positive for <i>Candida</i> species, these were <i>C. glabrata </i>(41.18%),<i> C. albicans</i> (23.52%), <i>C. krusei </i>(17<i>.</i>66%), <i>C. dubliniensis </i>(11.76%) and <i>C. tropicalis</i> (5.88%). No co-existence of <i>Candida</i> species was found.<b> </b>In the present study <i>C .glabrata</i> and C. <i>albicans</i> scored the highest frequency of occurrence.},
doi={10.12691/ajmr-8-3-1}
publisher={Science and Education Publishing}
}