Abstract
Reports on Candidiasis, a disease hitherto seldom noted, have increased in number following the clinical application of various antibiotics recently. Various theories have been advanced on the relation between antibiotics and Candida, some assuming that the former has a direct growth promoting effect on the latter and the other that the shortage of vitamin B caused by the former constitutes an indirect cause of the growth of the latter. None of these ideas are based on any established experimental findings and opinions differ on the mechanism by which Candidiasis is brought about. It is easily conceivable, however, that the Candida may appear and proliferate during the treatment with antibiotics. The present author, viewing the problem from such angle, attempted the isolation of Candida from the sputum and feces of tuberculosis patients and normal persons, with the following results:
