Abstract
Two hundred vaginal swabs were collected from clinic visiting women. The study revealed that 102 positive samples (51%) for the yeast isolation. The percentage was 51.11% in female below 30 years, while it was 50.76 % in women with age above 30 years. The highest levels of yeast isolation were found in relation with using of antibiotics, pregnant state and non-aborted women. By using disc diffusion method, several antifungal has the highest activity toward C.albicans such as fluconazole and clotrimazole while Iltrconazole and Amphotericin-B showed lower activity. The result of multiplex PCR showed that the most of the tested strains had ALS1, HWP and INT genes.
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