Cepas gigantes de candida albicans y su potencial de expresión/ fenotípica en niños portadores del sindrome de down

Los niños con el Sindrome de Down (SD), además de los factores que predisponen a la candidiasis bucal, presentan alteración cromosómica que afecta la estructura anatómica de la boca y compromete el sistema inmunológico. En este estudio se usaron 30 cepas de Candida albicans aisladas de la boca de los niños, siendo 25 (83.3%) portadores del SD y cinco (16.7%) sin este. Este hecho convierte a los niños portadores de este sindrome como grandes “cargadores” de levaduras predisponiéndolos a candidiasis bucal. El estudio topográfico de las colonias gigantes de C. albicans, aisladas de la cavidad bucal de los niños con y sin el SD revelaron los mismos aspectos macroscópicos con predominio de colonias que tienen la periferia con franjas, lo que demuestra que este sindrome probablemente no interfiere con esta característica específica en las colonias de levaduras. Sin embargo, estas mismas peculiaridades condicionan una mayor capacidad de adherencia de estas cepas de Candida con la mucosa afectada y a las secuelas ocasionadas por el SD, favoreciendo por lo tanto a la infección bucal por Candida.

Children with Down’s syndrome, besides the predispose factors to buccal candidiasis, present chromosomal alteration that affects the anatomic structure of the mouth and commits the immune system. In this study 30 strains of C. albicans isolated of the children's mouth were used, being 25 (83.3%) bearers of Down’s syndrome and five (16.7%) without it. This evidence turns the children with Down’s syndrome more carried of yeasts of Candida therefore predisposed the buccal candidiasis. The topographical study of the gigantic colonies of C. albicans, isolated of the children's buccal cavity with and without Down’s syndrome showed the same macroscopic aspects with prevalence of colonies with fringed periphery demonstrating that this syndrome presumably doesn't interfere in this characteristic of the fungal colonies however this outlying colonial aspect propitiates larger capacity of adherence of strains of Candida with the injured mucous membrane and the sequels propitiated by the Down’s syndrome inducing larger favoring the buccal infection to Candida.

[Detection of phospholipidolytic Candida albicans isolated from saliva of children with Down's syndrome]. / Detecção de Candida albicans fosfolipidolíticas isoladas da saliva de crianças com síndrome de Down.

The childhood is one of the most propitious period of the life to the occurrence of infection by yeasts of the genus Candida. In children with Down's syndrome, besides the predispose factors to bucal candidiasis; macroglossia, bucal muscular incompetence, frequent respiratory diseases, motor difficulty and immunologic deficit are mentioned as additional elements for this fungus disease. It was verified that the children attacked by this syndrome have much more strains of Candida than other children. The aim of this study was to detect the prevalence of phospholipase producer, Candida on the saliva of children with Down's syndrome. Candida albicans was the only identified specie of Candida. The phospholipase production was found in isolated strains from both of study and control. However, the isolated strains of the group of children with Down's syndrome have strongly present phospholipidolitic.