Review Article
Isolation and Identification of Candida from the Oral Cavity
Table 4
Methods of recovering Candida from the oral cavity.
| Isolation method | Advantages | Disadvantages |
| Culture of whole saliva | Sensitive; viable organisms isolated | Problems may occur with collection of sample; not site specific | Concentrated oral rinse | Quantitative; viable cells isolated | Some patients have difficulty in using rinse; not site specific | Swab | Simple to use; viable cells isolated; site specific | Difficult to standardize | Smear | Simple to use; not reliant on culture | Viable cells not determined; species identity not readily confirmed | Imprint culture | Quantitative; viable cells isolated; site specific | Some sites difficult to sample | Biopsy | Essential for chronic hyperplastic candidosis | Invasive; not appropriate for other forms of candidosis |
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