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The mycoflora of the subhuman primates

I. The flora of the oral cavity of the baboon in captivity

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Culture studies revealed that 54.3 % of 70 mouth samples and 15.1 % of 371 throat samples from captive male and female baboons contained yeasts.Candida albicans was found to be the highest single species isolated from the oral cavity of both sexes, with the exception ofTrichosporon, which was slightly higher in the mouths of female baboons.

There is a slight indication that the yeast flora of the female oral cavity is higher than that of the male. Similarly, there is a close parallelism between the oral mycoflora of human beings and that of the baboons studied.

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    Yousef Al-Doory

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Al-Doory, Y. The mycoflora of the subhuman primates. Mycopathologia et Mycologia Applicata 31, 43–48 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02050284

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