Candida Dubliniensis

Does anyone know if it is common for Candida Dubliniensis to show up on an oral culture? As far as I can tell, this form of Candida is rare. However, they've listed it in the results of a recent oral culture (Thrush).

[Paderla Anitha, DNB]

Hello and hope you are doing well.

Candida Dubliniensis has been recently recovered. They discovered that in Europe, about 2 percent of candida albican cases were actually candida dubliniensis. In the U.S., about 1.5 percent of cases had been incorrectly diagnosed. Candida dubliniensis is most common in people with compromised immune systems, such as those with HIV or those undergoing chemotherapy. Candida dubliniensis has a different DNA makeup than candida albicans and does not grow at 42 degrees C, as candida albicans does (this is the way doctors differentiate between the two). In terms of symptoms and treatment, however, these two types of candida are similar.

Hope this helped and do keep us posted.

[Buttrflygrl804]

I have also been cultured orally and the resuts were C Dubliniensis. I have suffered for more than 10 years with this and it is slowly killing me. The only treatment that I have been able to get is Diflucan and Lamisil for a month. Needless to say I have grown immune to these and they won't cure it, just knock down the symptoms enough to provide short term relief. I have not been able to get anyone to listen to my family's battle with this fungus. My husband was in the Gulf War and was in Ireland for a short time and came home with this and the "syndrome". He suffers as I do but is on his 2nd set of eye implants from going blind very quickly with no known cause! Now my 16 year old daughter has thrush regularly and suffers from most of the same symptoms that I do. You would think that being a nurse for over 19 years as I have and living in NC, half hour from two of the best hospitals in the country, Duke & UNC, that I could find a doctor to help us and not let us eventually die when it finally goes into the blood stream. I can barely get out of bed from fatigue, my teeth are rotting away daily, I can't eat without being ill or passing out 5 minutes into a meal, my mouth is so sore from the sores that I don't want to eat, the open sores on my face, neck and back of my head oooze a wonderful amount of crazy liquid that I am afraid to hug my kids or work in my profession any longer. Those are just a few of my daily symptoms that make my life so worth living. If anyone reads this and knows of a doctor who isn't afraid to admit that the fungus is really in the US and that someone other than a person with HIV can have it, and will actually treat it with a medicine that will actually kill it, PLEASE RESPOND TO ME SO I CAN LIVE AND SAVE MY FAMILY FROM IT! I WILL TRAVEL ANYWHERE TO BE TREATED! I WANT MY LIFE BACK BEFORE I DON'T HAVE ONE! Please send emails to ***@****