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. 1988 Dec;56(12):3162–3166. doi: 10.1128/iai.56.12.3162-3166.1988

Inoculation candidiasis in a murine model of severe combined immunodeficiency syndrome.

S Mahanty 1, R A Greenfield 1, W A Joyce 1, P W Kincade 1
PMCID: PMC259718  PMID: 3182076

Abstract

To further elucidate the importance of T- and B-lymphocyte-mediated responses in host defense against systemic infection with Candida albicans, we studied this infection in a murine model of severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID). The course of inoculation candidiasis in these mice, which lack functional T and B lymphocytes, was compared with that in immunologically normal BALB/c mice. Mice were inoculated intravenously with 10(5) yeast cells. Quantitative cultures of liver, spleen, and kidneys were performed with necropsy specimens obtained 1, 3, 7, 10, 14, and 21 days after this intravenous inoculation. The differences in the time courses of recovery of organisms from liver and spleen specimens were not significantly different in the SCID mice compared with the BALB/c mice. The recovery of C. albicans from the kidneys was significantly lower in the SCID mice, indicating less persistence of the organism in the kidneys of the SCID mice than in those of the BALB/c mice. These data indicate that defense mechanisms other than T- and B-lymphocyte-mediated mechanisms are primarily responsible for host defense against inoculation candidiasis.

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