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How is tx of candida albicans?

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• General conditions: • Terrain: (congenital immunosuppression, physiological: extreme age of life and pregnancy, • acquired: immunosuppressive treatments, corticosteroids, HIV, diabetes); • Medicines: systemic antibiotics, oestroprogestatives (genital mucosal infections) • Infection modalities: • endogenous pathway mainly (+++): digestive or genital origin • exogenous way, rarely: newborn: chorioamnionitis secondary to maternal candidal vaginitis (maternofetal transmission); adults: sexually transmitted candidiasis • Septicemia or deep visceral lesions with C. albicans: exceptional (deep immunosuppression, bone marrow suppression, premature neonate)


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