Tomov Georgi, Stamenov Nikola, Neychev Deyan, Atliev Kiril
Department of Periodontology and Oral Mucosa Diseases, Faculty of Dental Medicine, Medical University of Plovdiv, 15-A "Vasil Aprilov" Blvd, 4002 Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
Department of Oral Surgery, Faculty of Dental Medicine, Medical University of Plovdiv, 15-A "Vasil Aprilov" Blvd, 4002 Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
Antibiotics (Basel). 2022 May 31;11(6):742. doi: 10.3390/antibiotics11060742.
Among the local factors for oral candidiasis, the piercing of the tongue is recognized by some authors as a risk factor for the colonization of . There are few case reports in which spp. colonization and infection are associated with tongue piercing but only one microbiological study supports this hypothesis in general. The aim of this study was to examine this possible association between the presence of both tongue piercing and spp. in healthy individuals. Positive results for tongue colonization with spp. were found in four (12.9%) of the tongue-pierced subjects and in three (9.67%) subjects of the control group ( = 0.550). All samples were identified as . The univariate and logistic regression analyses of possible risk factors for tongue colonization revealed that gender ( = 0.024), smoking more than 10 cigarettes per day ( = 0.021), and improper hygiene ( = 0.028) were statistically significant influencing factors in the multivariate analysis. The results suggest that the piercing of the tongue is not a risk factor for colonization of spp.
在口腔念珠菌病的局部因素中，一些作者认为舌穿刺是念珠菌定植的危险因素。很少有病例报告表明念珠菌属的定植和感染与舌穿刺有关，但总体上只有一项微生物学研究支持这一假设。本研究的目的是检验健康个体中舌穿刺与念珠菌属存在之间的这种可能关联。在4名（12.9%）舌穿刺受试者和3名（9.67%）对照组受试者中发现念珠菌属舌定植呈阳性结果（P = 0.550）。所有样本均鉴定为念珠菌属。对舌定植可能危险因素的单因素和逻辑回归分析显示，在多因素分析中，性别（P = 0.024）、每天吸烟超过10支（P = 0.021）和卫生习惯不良（P = 0.028）是具有统计学意义的影响因素。结果表明，舌穿刺不是念珠菌属定植的危险因素。
