Les mycoses cutanéo-muqueuses à candida chez l’enfant et l’adolescent

Abstract

Superficial candidiasis are fungal infections resulting from the proliferation of yeasts of the genus Candida, they are very easy to diagnose and treat. These conditions are among the main superficial mycoses in children, they must be well known and detected in medical practice because of the consequences they can cause. Superficial candidiasis may be a symptom of call and orientation towards an alteration of the local microbial immune system or the immune system in general. These frequent disorders in immunocompetent children but very rare in teenager immunocompromised and they are much more serious in immunocompromised children, where the diagnostic difficulties inherent in the field can delay the therapeutic management. The little-known epidemiology of these infections in children and teenager has led us to initiate this modest work in collaboration with the Pediatrics Department of the University hospital of SETIF. During the study period (05 months) 135 patients were included. The biological diagnosis led to a superficial candidiasis in 100 patients, C.albicans was the most commonecies. Oral candidiasis was predominant with 71% of cases, and the notion of artificial breastfeeding was present in 66% of patients. Despite the limitations imposed by the relatively small number of patients, the short duration of the work and the difficulties of collecting the samples (displacement) this study made it possible to obtain a general description of the superficial candidiasis and its favourable factors in the children and teenager in SETIF