| prevalence and antifungal susceptibility of vaginal yeasts in outpatients attending a gynecological center in ancona, italy. | between february 1993 and may 1994 we studied the prevalence of fungal vulvovaginitis among women attending the obstetric and gynecology clinic of the university of ancona. out of the 222 patients, 18 (8.2%) women had symptomatic vaginitis and 24 (10.8%) were carriers. candida albicans was the species most frequently isolated (44.2%), followed by torulopsis glabrata (28%) and saccharomyces cerevisiae (16.2%), from symptomatic and carrier patients. the activity of acid proteinase was determined f ... | 1997 | 9258552 |
| epidemiology of onychomycosis and paronychia in the area of ancona (italy) over a period of 5 years. | we retrospectively evaluated the epidemiology of onychomycosis and/or paronychia in 172 patients attending the clinic of dermatology and venereology over a 5 year period. although yeast isolates, belonging to the candida species, represented the most frequent etiologic agents of these infections, an increasing prevalence of fungal infections due to emerging fungal pathogens (efp) was noted throughout this time period. in particular, efp as causative agents of these infections increased from 0 to ... | 2004 | 15645167 |