Table 8 Prevalence of Candida albicans and herspes simplex virus infections in oral lesions

Study

Sample

Candida Prevalence

Method of assessment

Levy-Polack et al. 1998 [35]

96

23/96 (24%)

Clinical evaluation

Anirudhan et al. 2008 [29]

70

38/70 (52.3%)

Microbiological evaluation of oral swabs

Olczak-Kowalczyk et al. 2012 [37]

34

21/34 (61.7%)

Microbiological evaluation of oral swabs

Gandhi et al. 2017 [33]

62

10/62 (16.1%)

Clinical evaluation

Juarez-Lopez et al. 2018 [34]

73

57/73 (78%)

Clinical evaluation

Pinto et al. 2018 [38]

71

9/71 (13.1%)

Clinical evaluation

Study

Sample

HSV Prevalence

Method of assessment

Anirudhan et al. 2008 [29]

70

1/70 (3%)

Microbiological evaluation of oral swabs

Gandhi et al. 2017 [33]

62

6/62 (9.7%)

Clinical evaluation

Pinto et al. 2018 [38]

71

2 (3.3%)

Clinical evaluation