Resistogram typing of oral Candida albicans isolates from normal subjects in three successive trials

Sixty-six oral strains of Candida albicans, which had been consecutively isolated from 22 normal, young females in three isolation trials at intervals of one to three weeks, were biotyped by their susceptibility to boric acid, cetrimide, silver nitrate, sodium periodate and sodium selenite. The 66 isolates were grouped into 13 resistogram types. An identical biotype strain was found three times and twice in seven and six each of the 22 subjects in the three isolation trials, respectively. In the remaining nine subjects, different strains were found at the three trials. These results suggested that certain strains tended to persist in the oral cavity of the normal subjects although changes in the biotype of oral C. albicans strains occurred to a certain extent.