1. Introduction
Candida albicans is the opportunistic fungal pathogen that lives as commensal on different locations of human body such as in gastrointestinal and genitourinary tracts in about 70% of humans. However, it can convert from harmless commensal into disease causing pathogen in response to change in host environment. C. albicans is the most common fungus associated with human infec-tions, especially in immune compromised patients [1]. Broadly, the infections caused by C. albicans can be di- vided into two categories: mucosal and systemic. Mu- cosal infections affect various mucous membranes of the body surfaces such as oropharyngeal mucosa and vaginal mucosa. Vaginal candidiasis is quite common in women and approximately 75% of all women suffer from vaginal candidiasis once in their lifetime. Systemic infection in-volves the spread of C. albicans to the blood stream and