• Title of article

    Identification of yeast species isolated from cancer patients in Basrah-Iraq by ITS rDNA sequencing

  • Author/Authors

    aldossary, mustafa a. basrah university - college of science - ecology department, Iraq , almansour, nasir a. basrah university - college of science - biology department, Iraq , abd al-abbas, munaff j. basrah university - college of science - biology department, Iraq , abdulraheem, bashar s. southern technical university - basrah technical institute - health community department, Iraq

  • From page
    11
  • To page
    26
  • Abstract
    Yeasts are a common normal flora in the human oral cavity especially members of Candida species, they can cause oral candidiasis in immunocompromised persons like cancer patients. This study conducted to detect the yeasts species isolated from the oral cavity of cancer patients in Basrah by using genetic analysis of ITS region. From a total of 54 yeasts isolates, 37 isolates appeared as different species of the genus Candida, the rest of species belong to Hanseniaspora (1), Kazachstania (1), Kluyveromyces (2), Magnusiomyces (3), Pichia (5) and Saccharomyces (5). 13yeasts species in this study reported as new strains in GenBank, also species belong to C. pronicula, H. uvarum, K. exigua, K. marxianus, M. capitatus, Magnusiomyces sp., P. kudriavzevii, P.manshurica and S.bayanus x S. cerevisiae isolated for the first time in Iraq, the results showed that the molecular method provide a good approach for the identification of yeast. :
  • Keywords
    yeasts , oral cavity , cancer , molecular identification
  • Journal title
    Journal of King Abdulaziz University : Science
  • Journal title
    Journal of King Abdulaziz University : Science
  • Record number

    2583839