Epidemiology of vaginal candidiasis among pregnant women attending Tikrit teaching hospital Iraq

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Back ground: Vaginal candidiasis is the second common infection among child bearing women.

The disease is caused by yeast organism especially Candida albican.

Pregnancy is one of the risk factors of the disease.

It has been revealed that more than 75 % of women may experience an attach of the disease during their life time.

Objectives: To study the epidemiological factors of vaginal candidiasis among pregnant women attending Tikrit teaching hospital out-patient clinic.

Patients and methods: The study was conducted on a sample of (120) pregnant women.

The demographic and epidemiologic information was obtained according to special designed questionnaire.

The study was done over a period from 1/3/2017 to 16/4/2017.

Vaginal swabs were taken from patients and sent to the lab for direct microscopically examination and cultured in special nutrient media.

Results: About (29%) of study sample had vaginal candidiasis.

There was a significant relation between a history of taking antibiotic, oral contraceptive drugs, diabetes mellitus and occurrence of the disease.

The most frequent cases of vaginal candidiasis were from age group (25-35 years) (57.1%).

Conclusions: About (29%) of pregnant women sample was affected by vaginal candidiasis.

There was a significant relation between history of using oral contraceptive pills, broad spectrum antibiotics taking, diabetes mellitus and occurrence of the disease.