Abstract
A urinary tract infection (UTI) is a major disease that affects people of all age groups. Women are more susceptible to UTI than men especially pregnancy, mainly due to the different structural features make easy contamination of the UTI with fecal flora. Candida is one of pathogenic which causing this problem. A total of 196 Clean-Catch midstream urine samples were collected from pregnancy referred to Kassala new Hospital and Abdurrahman Elmobark Medical center, their ages between 15 to 40 year old. Grams’ staining, chlamydospores formation and Chromogenic Agar medium used to differentiate between Candida spp. 17 (8.67%) were positive for Candida species, these were C. glabrata (41.18%), C. albicans (23.52%), C. krusei (17.66%), C. dubliniensis (11.76%) and C. tropicalis (5.88%). No co-existence of Candida species was found. In the present study C .glabrata and C. albicans scored the highest frequency of occurrence.
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