Asymptomatic oral yeast carriage and antifungal susceptibility profile of HIV-infected patients in Kunming, Yunnan Province of China

Table 1 Distribution of oral yeast isolates in 604 HIV-infected patients and 851 healthy subjects from Kunming, Yunnan Province of China

Species	HIV-infected patients		Healthy subjects^a
	Occurrence of species (%)^a	Proportion of HIV-infected patients with colonization^b	Occurrence of species (%)^a	Proportion of HIV-infected patients with colonization^b
C. albicans	263 (82.2)	43.5	131 (73.2)	15.4
C. glabrata	29 (9.1)	4.8	17 (9.5)	2.0
C. parapsilosis	12 (3.8)	2.0	21 (11.7)	2.5
C. krusei	10 (3.1)	1.7	3 (1.7)	0.4
C. tropicalis	2 (0.6)	0.3	4 (2.2)	0.5
C. rugosa	1 (0.3)	0.2	0 (0.0)	0.0
C. norvegensis	1 (0.3)	0.2	0 (0.0)	0.0
C. lusitaniae	0 (0.0)	0.0	1 (0.6)	0.1
C. guilliermondii	0 (0.0)	0.0	1 (0.6)	0.1
Pichia ohmeri	1 (0.3)	0.2	1 (0.6)	0.1
Saccharomyces cerevisiae	1 (0.3)	0.2	0 (0.0)	0.0
Total	320 (100.0)	−	179 (100.0)	−

^a The values in parentheses refer to frequency of each species in all oral yeast isolates.
^b Multiple species isolation was counted according to the presence of each species in a donor.

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