[Mycophobia--a new disease?]
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1Krankenhaus Dresden-Friedrichstadt, Städtisches Klinikum, Hautklinik, Dresden, BR Deutschland.
Abstract:
In the recent 18 months we analysed 13 patients with so-called therapy-resistant intestinal candidosis. Symptoms like flatulence, digestive trouble, intestinal inefficiency, arthralgia, heart trouble, etc., were declared. From four patients Candida albicans and in further three patients C. parapsilosis, C. lusitaniae, Trichosporon cutaneum, and Geotrichum candidum could be isolated. Serological tests were normal. In none of the 13 patients a mycosis which needed therapy was proven. Eight patients had signs of a depression or neurosis. In all 13 patients the occasional or repeated isolation of yeasts from faeces or the oral cavity was falsely interpreted as a fungal infection and thus became the inductor of a phobia.
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