Highlights Regarding Host Predisposing Factors to Recurrent Vulvovaginal Candidiasis: Chronic Stress and Reduced Antioxidant Capacity

• Luciene Akimoto-Gunther,

  Affiliations Postgraduate Program in Health Sciences, State University of Maringá, Maringá, Brazil, Department of Clinical Analyses and Biomedicine, State University of Maringá, Maringá, Brazil

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• Patrícia de Souza Bonfim-Mendonça,

  Affiliations Postgraduate Program in Health Sciences, State University of Maringá, Maringá, Brazil, Department of Clinical Analyses and Biomedicine, State University of Maringá, Maringá, Brazil

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• Gisele Takahachi,

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Analyses and Biomedicine, State University of Maringá, Maringá, Brazil

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• Mary Mayumi T. Irie,

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Analyses and Biomedicine, State University of Maringá, Maringá, Brazil

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• Sônia Miyamoto,

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Analyses and Biomedicine, State University of Maringá, Maringá, Brazil

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• Márcia Edilaine Lopes Consolaro,

  Affiliations Postgraduate Program in Health Sciences, State University of Maringá, Maringá, Brazil, Department of Clinical Analyses and Biomedicine, State University of Maringá, Maringá, Brazil

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• Terezinha I. Estivalet Svidzinsk

  * E-mail: terezinha.svidzinski@gmail.com

  Affiliations Postgraduate Program in Health Sciences, State University of Maringá, Maringá, Brazil, Department of Clinical Analyses and Biomedicine, State University of Maringá, Maringá, Brazil

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