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. 1981 Dec;34(3):844–850. doi: 10.1128/iai.34.3.844-850.1981

Immunological relatedness among Candida albicans and other pathogenic Candida species.

R F Hector, F L Lyon, J E Domer
PMCID: PMC350946  PMID: 7037643

Abstract

Membrane-mitochondrial (butanol-hot phosphate-buffered saline) and cytosol (soluble cytoplasmic substances) extracts from seven pathogenic species of Candida were used in in vivo and in vitro immunological assays to study antigenic similarities among the strains with respect to C. albicans. Mice were sensitized with C. albicans serotype A for footpad testing or to provide cells for lymphocyte stimulation assays, and guinea pigs were immunized with whole cells or butanol-hot phosphate-buffered saline extracts of C. albicans to obtain antisera for immunodiffusion assays. When extracts from each of the seven species were used in the assays, they consistently segregated, as determined by statistical or subjective analyses, into three groups. Extracts of C. albicans serotype A or B and C. stellatoidea were the most immunologically reactive in all assays, indicating close similarities between those two species, whereas extracts of C. tropicalis and C. parapsilosis elicited only moderate responses. Extracts from C. krusei, C. guilliermondii, and C. pseudotropicalis were hypo- or nonreactive in the assays, indicating a low level of antigenic relatedness to C. albicans.

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