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. 1987 May;31(5):691–697. doi: 10.1128/aac.31.5.691

Enhanced immune responses in mice treated with penicillin-tetracycline or trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole when colonized intragastrically with Candida albicans.

J E Domer, R F Hector
PMCID: PMC174816  PMID: 3300536

Abstract

Immune consequences of gastrointestinal colonization of CD-1 and CBA/J mice with Candida albicans in the presence or absence of continuous antibiotic treatment with penicillin-tetracycline or trimethoprimsulfamethoxazole were investigated. Intubation with C. albicans in the absence of antibiotics resulted in the induction of low but detectable delayed-type hypersensitivity (DTH), demonstrable by footpad testing with a C. albicans wall glycoprotein (GP), and in the stimulation of a moderate level of protective immunity, demonstrable by intravenous (i.v.) challenge. DTH to a membrane extract, BEX, could not be detected in such animals. However, animals colonized in the presence of antibiotics and then inoculated cutaneously prior to being tested for DTH or protective immunity developed significantly enhanced levels of DTH to GP and BEX and were protected to an even greater extent than animals colonized in the absence of antibiotics who were not inoculated cutaneously. The priming effect of colonization, particularly with respect to the antigen GP, was also obvious from an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for GP-specific antibody with sera of mice surviving the i.v. challenge, in that GP-specific antibody was present in the highest titers in colonized animals that had been inoculated cutaneously prior to i.v. challenge. While the antibiotics promoted higher levels of colonization, as evidenced by stomach and fecal cultures of intubated mice, antibiotic administration was not necessary for the induction of C. albicans-specific responses. Moreover, contrary to reports in the literature, antibiotic administration had no adverse effect on the immune responses measured. Females were innately more resistant than males to i.v. challenge with C. albicans, but each sex was capable of developing protective immunity of equal intensity in response to colonization or immunization by cutaneous challenge.

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