Candidal Prevalence in Diabetics and its Species Identification.

Context: species is a part of the normal mouth flora. Diabetes mellitus is a predisposing factor for the onset of oral candidiasis.

Aim: The objective of this study was to estimate salivary glucose in patient with diabetes and healthy individuals, to determine total candidal counts as well as different candidal species in the saliva of patients with diabetes and nondiabetics.

A case report of relapsing fever.

Relapsing fever is an acute febrile illness caused by spirochetes of the genus Borrelia. The high fevers of presenting patients spontaneously abate and then recur. Here we report a 50-year-old woman having relapsing fever associated with thrombocytopenia.