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ArticleMedicina oral, patologia oral y cirugia bucal2021

The genotypes and virulence attributes of C. albicans isolates from oral leukoplakia.

M-M Weerasekera, G-K Wijesinghe, A Sampath, A Dilhari, T Madhumal, R Dilrukshi, R Willaddara, S Karunathilaka, C Gunasekara, N Fernando and 1 more

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Article in Medicina oral, patologia oral y cirugia bucal, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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11 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.

M-M WeerasekeraDepartment of Microbiology Faculty of Medical Sciences University of Sri Jayewardenepura Gangodawila, Nugegoda, Sri Lanka mmweera@sjp.ac.lk.
G-K Wijesinghe
A Sampath
A Dilhari
T Madhumal
R Dilrukshi
R Willaddara
S Karunathilaka
C Gunasekara
N Fernando
L Samaranayake
University of Sri Jayewardenepura · LKColombo North Teaching Hospital · LKUniversity of Colombo · LKUniversity of Hong Kong · HK

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundThere is a debate as to whether some types of oral leucoplakias (OL) are caused by Candida species, and whether they contribute to the malignant transformation, associated with a minority of such lesions. As no detailed population analysis of yeast isolates from OL is available, we evaluated the virulence attributes, and genotypes of 35 C. albicans from OL, and compared their genotypes with 18 oral isolates from healthy individuals. MATERIAL AND

methodsThe virulence traits evaluated were esterase, phospholipase, proteinase, haemolysin and coagulase production, and phenotypic switching activity, and yeast adherence and biofilm formation. DNA from OL and control yeasts were evaluated for A, B or C genotype status.

resultsPhospholipase, proteinase, and coagulase activity and biofilm formation was observed in 80%, 66%, 97 % and 77 % of the isolates, respectively. Phenotypic switching was detected in 8.6%, while heamolytic, and esterase activity and adherence were noted in all isolates.

conclusionsThe genotype A was predominant amongst both the OL and control groups. Due to the small sample size of our study a larger investigation to define the role of candidal virulent attributes in the pathogenicity of OL is warranted, and the current data should serve as a basis until then.

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CandidaCandida albicansGenotypeHumansLeukoplakia, OralVirulence

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