A prospective study on vulvovaginal candidiasis: multicentre molecular epidemiology of pathogenic yeasts in China.
N SongS KanQ PangH MeiH ZhengD LiF CuiG LvR AnP LiZ XiongS FanM ZhangY ChenQ QiaoX LiangM CuiD LiQ LiaoXiaofang LiWei-Da LiuPublished in: Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology : JEADV (2021)
Our findings suggest that C. albicans are still the main cause of VVC in China and the majority of C. albicans isolates belongs to Clade 1 with DST 79 and DST 45 being two most common. Moreover, the New Clade revealed in our study seems to be specific to northern China.