MORPHOTYPES OF ORAL ISOLATES OF CANDIDA-ALBICANS FROM PATIENTS INFECTED WITH THE HUMAN-IMMUNODEFICIENCY-VIRUS

Following strain differentiation of isolates of Candida albicans from the mouths of a group of patients infected with the human immunodefici ency virus, it was observed that the majority of morphotypes isolated from the early stage of the infection were different from the morphoty pes isolated from the advanced stages of the infection, and that a par ticular morphotype (724), isolated from ARC and AIDS patients, was the most common C. albicans morphotype to occur. Morphotype 724 was not d etected in the HIV-Ab+ cohort. This report describes the study and dis cusses the relevance of the findings in terms of prognostic significan ce.