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In an attempt to clarify the comparative values of serological and microbiological examinations for the early diagnosis of systemic candidiasis, antibodies against Candida albicans, serum mannan, and the D-arabinitol creatinine ratio were investigated in a patient with aortic valve endocarditis associated with carcinoma of the bile duct. Candida precipitins and the antibody titer against Candida cell wall mannan were examined by an immunodiffusion technique and hemagglutination test, respectively. Serum mannan was tested by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) using the biotin-streptavidin procedure. The upper limit of negativity of the assay was determined by adding 0.06 to the absorbance of pooled serum from healthy laboratory workers. This value ws about 0.8 ng/ml with ELISA. The D-arabinitol concentration in serum was examined by an enzymatic fluorometric method. Rising antibody titers against C. albicans, mannan antigenemia, and an elevated D-arabinitol creatinine ratio were first observed between the 11th and 12th hospital days. Blood cultures obtained on 8th, 9th, and 11th hospital days grew C. albicans after 3 to 4 days of incubation. Of 11 serum samples, 5 were positive for mannan, whereas D-arabinitol creatinine ratio was positive in 7 of 9 samples. Blood cultures was the earliest evidence of Candida infections in our cases. However, because of saprophytic nature of Candida species, tests for antibodies, antigenemia, and the D-arabinitol creatinine ratio in combination with blood cultures are necessary to confirm systemic candidiasis at an early stage of infection.Abbreviations ELISA
enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay 相似文献
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Summary We have obtained mannans from four Candida species: C. albicans A, C. albicans B and C. tropicalis; antimannan sera against C. albicans A, C. albicans B and C. tropicalis were obtained by immunizing rabbits sub-cutaneously with the respective yeast extract. The efficacy of these sera in reacting with mannans obtained from three Candida sp. has been proven by indirect ELISA-inhibition.Any of three immune sera can be used to detect mannan antigen from the three Candida sp. tested. This confirms the existence of crossed reactivity and the possibility of detecting mannan antigen in serum from patients infected by different Candida sp., although we had only one immune serum and one Candida mannan. 相似文献
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Various antisera raised either to antigens ofCandida albicans or to sub-lethal infections of blastospores (convalescent sera) were tested for their efficacy in diagnosing systemic disease in artifically infected animals. Globulin from convalescent serum, when conjugated with alkaline phosphatase and used in enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISA), was the only antiserum type which detected circulatingCandida-related antigen in the serum of infected animals. Conjugates made from anti-mannan, anti-blastospore or antimycelial globulin did not detect antigen. Mannan did not appear to be related to an antigen produced in sera of experimentally infected mice. The significance of these results in the diagnosis of systemic candidosis is discussed. 相似文献
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AbstractCandida albicans biofilms are responsible for oral candidiasis. Fluoxetine is a widely used antidepressant, with certain anti-Candida activities. The antifungal activity of fluoxetine combined with various antifungals against C. albicans biofilms and oral candidiasis was evaluated in this study. The morphological change in the inhibition of fluoxetine on C. albicans biofilms was observed using SEM. The interactions between fluoxetine and antifungals against C. albicans biofilms were evaluated using microdilution checkerboard methods, FICI and the ΔE model. The synergistic combination was tested in vivo on the mice model of oral candidiasis. SEM imaging showed fluoxetine inhibited hyphal growth and biofilm formation. Fluoxetine combined with caspofungin exhibited synergistic effects against C. albicans biofilms. Antagonistic effects occurred when fluoxetine was combined with amphotericin B or terbinafine. Further, the fluoxetine combined with caspofungin significantly reduced the lesion score and CFU of C. albicans on the murine tongue (p?<?0.05), and relieved oral candidiasis of the infected mice. 相似文献
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This study describes humoral and cell mediated immune (CMI) responses detected in cyclophosphamide (CY) treated animals who were vaccinated with Candida albicans ribosomes and were protected against systemic candidiasis (previous study).Mice treated with CY and vaccinated with C. albicans ribosomes revealed CMI responses towards the ribosomes as measured in vivo by the foot pad swelling test and in vitro by the lymphocyte transformation assay. Both reactions were higher in CY treated and ribosome vaccinated mice than in controls (mice that were only vaccinated). Humoral immune responses were measured by the enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). Anti ribosomal antibody titer contrary to the CMI responses was lower in CY treated animals than in non treated controls.These data point to a possible explanation of the mechanisms underlying the ribosomal vaccinations in CY treated hosts, and show the potential of such vaccinations in compromised individuals. 相似文献
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This study, spread over a span of 2 years describes Candida infections in burn patients of an Indian hospital. A total of 220 burn patients were monitored and Candida could be isolated from 138 patients. A total of 228 different Candida species were obtained from various body locations of these patients. Species identification revealed that Candida albicans was the most predominant (45) followed by Candida tropicalis(33), Candida glabrata (13.5), C. parapsilosis (4), C. krusei (2.75) and C. kefyr (1.75). DNA fingerprinting of all C. albicans isolates was done by using CARE-2 probe. Fingerprinting analyses of all the C. albicans strains revealed that strains collected from different patients were different. It is noteworthy that patients with disseminated
candidiasis had a similar, but unique strain isolated from all body locations, suggesting a possibility that commensal isolates
might be turning pathogenic. Taken together, this is probably the first ever detailed survey of Candidainfections in burn patients in India and is expected to lead to better clinical management of this group of patients. 相似文献
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Objective: Oropharyngeal candidiasis (OPC), caused by Candida albicans, is the most common oral infection in HIV+ persons. Oral epithelial cells are considered important for innate host defense against OPC with production of cytokines
in response to C. albicans and the ability to inhibit Candida growth in vitro. The purpose of this study was to determine if Candida similarly induces cytokines by oral epithelial cells from HIV+ persons, including those with OPC, as well as to determine if cytokines can influence the oral epithelial cell anti-Candida activity. Methods: Supernatants from oral epithelial cells from HIV+ persons with and without OPC cultured with Candida were evaluated for cytokines by ELISA, or cytokines were added to the standard growth inhibition assay using epithelial cells
from HIV− persons. Results: Results showed low Candida-induced epithelial cell cytokine production from HIV+ persons, but with some elevated proinflammatory cytokines (TNF-α, IL-6) in those with OPC compared to those without OPC.
The addition of specific proinflammatory or Th cytokines had no effect on oral epithelial cell anti-Candida activity in healthy HIV− persons. Conclusion: These results suggest that oral epithelial cells from HIV+ persons can contribute at some level to the oral cytokine milieu in response to Candida during OPC, but that cytokines do not appear to influence oral epithelial cell anti-Candida activity. 相似文献
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In Vitro susceptibility of 137 Candida sp. Isolates from HIV positive patients to several antifungal drugs 总被引:5,自引:0,他引:5
Oropharyngeal candidiasis caused by various species of Candida is one of the most common infections in HIV seropositive or AIDS patients. Drug resistance among these yeasts is an increasing
problem. We studied the frequency of resistance profile to fluconazole, itraconazole, ketoconazole, amphotericin B and terbinafine
of 137 isolates of Candida sp. From HIV positive or AIDS patients with oropharyngeal candidiasis at Instituto de Inmunología, U.C.V. and the Hospital
“Jose Ignacio Baldó”, Caracas Venezuela, using the well diffusion susceptibility test (Magaldi et al.). We found that nearly
10% of C. albicans isolates were primarily fluconazole resistant, 45% of C. albicans isolates from patients with previous treatment were resistant to fluconazole, of which 93% showed cross-resistance to itraconazole,
and even about 30% of C. tropicalis (n = 13) were resistant to fluconazole and/or itraconazole. To this respect, several recent reports have been described antifungal
cross-resistance among azoles. Therefore, we consider that C. tropicalis should be added to the growing list of yeast in which antifungal drug resistance is common. This report could be useful for
therapeutic aspect in AIDS patients with oral candidiasis.
This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
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Maritza Munoz Gene Estes Michael Kilpatrick Arthur Di Salvo Gabriel Virella 《Mycopathologia》1980,72(1):47-53
The serology of candidiasis is complicated by the use of poorly defined antigens. Total extracts of the yeast phase have been commonly used as cytoplasmic antigen, without regard to the significant amounts of carbohydrate that may contaminate such preparations. This is particularly true in the case of commercially available antigens that have been used as cytoplasmic antigens but actually are richer in carbohydrate than in protein. Affinity chromatography in concanavalin A — Sepharose provides a simple procedure to separate carbohydrates, mainly mannan, from protein antigens in whole Candida extracts. By using mannan-poor antigens, the specificity of serological reactions can be increased considerably, since both the positive reactions seen in asymptomatic donors and the cross-reactions seen in patients infected with other fungi are due to anti-mannan antibodies. In contrast, both anti-mannan and anti-cytoplasmic antigen antibodies can be detected in patients suspected of systemic candidiasis. On the other hand, absolute specificity may never be achieved for systemic candidiasis. We have found antibodies against cytoplasmic antigen in a patient allergic to C. albicans, in whom the microorganism was isolated from fecal material. It appears that, under favorable conditions, mucosal sensitization may also trigger a systemic reaction directed against both mannan and cytoplasmic antigens.Publication no. 341 from The Department of Basic and Clinical Immunology and Microbiology, Medical University of South Carolina. 相似文献
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Shyi Yi Huang Charles W. Berry Joseph T. Newman William H. Cooper Nannepaga Y. Zachariah 《Mycopathologia》1979,67(1):55-58
Rabbits were employed as experimental models to evaluate a solid-phase radioimmunoassay (RIA) method for the diagnosis of systemic candidiasis. Ten rabbits were inoculated subcutaneously to mimic superficial candidiasis and were found to produce no antibodies to Candida as determined by both immunodiffusion and RIA procedures. However, 94 per cent of 18 rabbits systemically infected by intravenous injection of Candida cells were observed to produce antibody as assessed by the RIA technique. These data encourage further tests with human sera and the continued development of this RIA procedure as a useful tool in the early serodiagnosis of systemic candidiasis. 相似文献
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Vulvovaginal candidiasis is associated with the production of germ tubes by <Emphasis Type="Italic">Candida albicans</Emphasis> 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Consolaro ME Albertoni TA Svidzinski AE Peralta RM Svidzinski TI 《Mycopathologia》2005,159(4):501-507
Twenty Candida albicans strains isolated from women attended at the Teaching and Research in the Laboratory of Teaching and Research in Clinical Analysis of the State University of Maringa, Paraná, Brazil, have been analyzed. Yeasts were identified by classical methods and patients subdivided into asymptomatic, vulvovaginal candidiasis(VVC) and recurrent vulvovaginal candidiasis (RVVC) groups. Yeasts were incubated in RPMI + fetal calf serum to analyze germ tubes every two hours, up to 10 h. In vitro sensitivity to fluconazole, itraconazole, ketoconazole, amphotericin B and nystatin was analyzed according to NCCLS-M27-A microdilution assay. Yeast isolated from symptomatic women produced significantly more germ tubes than asymptomatic women (P < 0.05). However, no significant difference between yeasts from VVC and RVVC occurred (P > 0.05). Variation between MIC50 and MIC90 of tested antifungal agents was slight among isolated yeasts, while no resistant yeasts were detected. Nevertheless, VVC yeasts were more DDS (reduced dose-dependent susceptibility) for nystatin and RVVC were more DDS for ketoconazole. Results suggest that colonization by yeast in the vagina and lack of symptoms may be partially explained by the yeast’s sparse capacity to form germ tubes, On the other hand, RVVC was not associated with antimicrobial resistance. DDS high frequency for nystatin and ketoconazole indicates that identification, and susceptibility of antifungals tests are important to management of VVC. 相似文献
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Candida albicans is an opportunistic pathogen of human mucosal surfaces. Colonization of oral and vaginal mucosa by this yeast is antagonized by the resident normal bacterial population. However, antibacterial therapy can alter the normal flora to allow fungal cells to attach, grow and invade host tissues. We studied the antimicrobic activity of fluconazole against clinical isolates of oral and vaginal bacteria and Candida albicans in vitro and in vivo by scanning and transmission electron microscopy; we also compared the bactericidal activity of fluconazole with clotrimazole in vitro by microbiologie assay. Fluconazole lysed fungi but did not change the ultrastructure of bacteria. Clotrimazole, but not fluconazole, was bactericidal against lactobacillus and streptococcus, the principal species of the oral and vaginal cavities. We conclude that Candida albicans, but not oral and vaginal bacteria, is susceptible to fluconazole. These observations help explain the antimycotic specificity of fluconazole and its efficacy against candidiasis in humans. 相似文献
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Mimi Remichkova Svetla Danova Catalin Tucureanu Lucian Lerescu Aurora Salageanu Petya Dimitrova 《Mycopathologia》2009,167(6):333-340
Neonates are highly sensitive to infections because they are biased to develop Th2 immune responses. When exposed to certain
agents, such as DNA vaccines or CpG DNA motifs, neonates are capable to mount adult-like Th1 protective responses. This study
investigates the capacity of Candida albicans (C. albicans) dsDNA to induce host resistance in newborn mice against gastrointestinal C. albicans infection. The protective properties of dsDNA are related to an increased number of spleen CD4+ T cells secreting IFN-γ. In infected DNA-treated mice, an enhanced production of IFN-γ by Peyer’s patch cells was observed together with reduced colonization and histopathological changes in the stomach. Our
results indicated that C. albicans dsDNA administration in neonates elicited the protective immune response against gastrointestinal Candida infection. 相似文献
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Hiroshi Tabeta Yuzuru Mikami Fumihiko Abe Yuuta Ommura Tadashi Arai 《Mycopathologia》1984,84(2-3):107-113
The defense mechanisms against Candida albicans infection were studied by using a mouse thigh lesion model in congenitally athymic nude (nu/nu) mice and their normal littermates (nu/+). Nu/nu mice were more resistant to C. albicans infection than nu/+ mice judging from the course of the thigh lesion, the results of CFUs (colony-forming units) of C. albicans in the lesion, and histopathological observations. Histopathological and serological studies revealed that granulocytic cellular infiltration was predominant, and there were few indications of development of cell-mediated immunity to protect Candida infection in Candida-infected nu/nu and nu/+ mice. These results confirmed that lower susceptibility of nu/nu mice to C. albicans infection as compared with nu/ + mice was due to accelerated non-specific defense mechanisms in nu/nu mice, and that cell-mediated or humoral immunity played a minor role in the defense against Candida infection in this experimental model.Furthermore, treatment with high titer of rabbit anti-C. albicans serum was effective to control the number of Candida cells in thigh lesions of BALB/c mice.Above experimental results seem to clearly indicate the great variability of defense manifestation according to the experimental model exployed. 相似文献
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CHROMagar has been reported to be useful for the rapid and accurate identification of Candida species. We tested 135 isolates of Candida species isolated from oropharyngeal candidiasis in HIV patients and found that it was useful in the presumptive identification
of Candida albicans and Candida krusei. Occasional strains of C. tropicalis produced colonies with a greenish tinge making it difficult to differentiate from C. albicans. 相似文献
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Barbara Ralska Asa Ljungh Aleksandra Burow Wiesawa Rudnicka 《Microbiology and immunology》1995,39(7):443-450
Candida yeasts are frequently isolated from patients with continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis peritonitis or other biomaterial-associated infections. The mouse model of candidal peritonitis was used to study the interaction of Candida cells with end-point attached heparinized polyethylene (H-PE) and with polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMNs) or macrophages (Mφ). Two Candida strains differing in cell surface hydrophobicity and in expression of fibronectin (Fn) binding were used for the study. Cells of both Candida strains adhered at higher numbers to H-PE surfaces preadsorbed with Fn or with human dialysis fluid (HDF) than to non-modified H-PE, supporting a role of Fn in mediating adhesion. C. albicans 4016 cells expressing low hydrophobicity and low binding of soluble Fn demonstrated stronger adhesion to PMNs than the more hydrophobic C. albicans 3248 yeasts, which express high binding of soluble Fn. However, C. albicans 4016 cells were more resistant to phagocytic killing and were hardly eradicated in intraperitoneally infected mice. The animals depleted in PMNs by treatment with CY were neither able to eradicate C. albicans 3248 (rapidly eliminated by normal mice) nor C. albicans 4016 yeasts (with a tendency to persist in the tissues of normal mice). 相似文献
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Oral candidiasis is the most common opportunistic infection in individuals infected with the human immunodeficiency virus.
Though Candida albicans is the major aetiological agent, non-albicans species such Candida tropicalis are now emerging as important agents of such infection. The Candida cell surface hydrophobicity (CSH) is considered a critical factor contributing to its colonization potential and virulence.
It is also known that brief exposure to sub-cidal concentrations of antifungal agents is a likely scenario in the oral environment
where the administered drugs are diluted continuously due to the flushing action of saliva. Hence the objective of the present
study was to compare the CSH of 10 isolates each of C. albicans and C. tropicalis from HIV-infected individuals following brief exposure (1hour) of isolates to sub-therapeutic concentrations of nystatin,
amphotericin B, ketoconazole, fluconazole and 5-flurocytosine. The CSH was assessed by a previously described biphasic aqueous-hydrocarbon
assay. The mean percentage reduction of CSH of C. albicans following brief exposure to nystatin, amphotericin B, ketoconazole, fluconazole and 5-flurocytosine was27.33 (p < 0.001),
21.34 (p < 0.05), 11.74 (p > 0.05), 18.4 (p > 0.05) and 14.64 (p > 0.05) respectively. The mean percentage reduction of CSH
of C. tropicalis following brief exposure to nystatin, amphotericin B, ketoconazole, fluconazole and 5-flurocytosine was 33.81 (p < 0.01),
28.88 (p < 0.01), 12.6 (p > 0.05), 21.53(p > 0.05) and 17.68 (p > 0.05) respectively. A significant inter-species variation
in CSH was observed for nystatin and amphoterecin B. Overall the results reveal that the CSH of C. albicans is affected to a significantly lesser degree compared with C. tropicalis when exposed to the antifungals. These data further illustrate another mode of action of antifungals on Candida leading to a reduction in the CSH and thereby the yeast adherence to host tissues.
This revised version was published online in June 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
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Antifungal activities of origanum oil against Candida albicans 总被引:8,自引:0,他引:8
Manohar V Ingram C Gray J Talpur NA Echard BW Bagchi D Preuss HG 《Molecular and cellular biochemistry》2001,228(1-2):111-117
The antimicrobial properties of volatile aromatic oils from medicinal as well as other edible plants has been recognized since antiquity. Origanum oil, which is used as a food flavoring agent, possesses a broad spectrum of in vitro antimicrobial activities attributed to the high content of phenolic derivatives such as carvacrol and thymol. In the present study, antifungal properties of origanum oil were examined both in vitro and in vivo. Using Candida albicans in broth cultures and a micro dilution method, comparative efficacy of origanum oil, carvacrol, nystatin and amphotericin B were examined in vitro. Origanum oil at 0.25 mg/ml was found to completely inhibit the growth of C. albicans in culture. Growth inhibitions of 75% and >50% were observed at 0.125 mg/ml and 0.0625 mg/ml level, respectively. In addition, both the germination and the mycelial growth of C. albicans were found to be inhibited by origanum oil and carvacrol in a dose-dependent manner. Furthermore, the therapeutic efficacy of origanum oil was examined in an experimental murine systemic candidiasis model. Groups of mice (n = 6) infected with C. albicans (5 × LD50) were fed varying amounts of origanum oil in a final vol. of 0.1 ml of olive oil (vehicle). The daily administration of 8.6 mg of origanum oil in 100 l of olive oil/kg body weight for 30 days resulted in 80% survivability, with no renal burden of C. albicans as opposed to the group of mice fed olive oil alone, who died within 10 days. Similar results were obtained with carvacrol. However, mice fed origanum oil exhibited cosmetically better clinical appearance compared to those cured with carvacrol. The results from our study encourage examination of the efficacy of origanum oil in other forms of systemic and superficial fungal infections and exploration of its broad spectrum effect against other pathogenic manifestations including malignancy. 相似文献
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Eckart Haneke 《Mycopathologia》1974,52(3-4):269-271
Indirect immunofluorescent staining ofCandida albicans pseudohyphae and blastospores by serial dilutions of sera from patients with different forms of candidiasis showed that the mycelial form fluoresced more intensely at higher serum dilutions than the blastospores. 相似文献
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Lasioglossins LLIII affect the morphogenesis of Candida albicans and reduces the duration of experimental vaginal candidiasis in mice
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