Thursday, February 3, 2011

Oral Candidiasis Diagnosis

Oral Candidiasis
Diagnosis

Laboratory studies:
Quantitative culture of saliva-is useful in diagnosis of oral candidiasis, candida carriers and patients are diagnosed at a total of 400 CFU of candida organisms per ml saliva
Candida species, because the color is not practiced with hematoxylin eosin stains Gram, Gomorrah, PAS
the delayed hypersensitivity skin may prove to Candida antigens
humoral immunity, to test the practice candiei agglutination test, complement fixation test, precipitin test, ELISA and immunofluorescence
-serological tests using four types of candidate antigens: viable candida cells and filtered culture, cell wall polysaccharides and glycoproteins, cytoplasmic antigens
evaluate the HIV infection, nutritional deficiencies, diabetes, blood dyscrasia, avitaminozele, serum ferritin, glucose, hemoglobin, lymphocytes
will test the thyroid function and is associated with adrenocortical disease candidate because these organs
HIV-test is indicated.

The differential diagnosis is made with the following conditions: leucoplakia oral lichen planus, leucoplakia Highland Fordyce spots.

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