The effect of the fungal growth stimulants present in bovine placenta on experimental Absidia corymbifera infection in mice

Parenteral administration of bovine placental extract to mice in the period overlapping inoculation with spores of Absidia corymbifera did not increase their susceptibility to acute, lethal infection of the central nervous system. It did, however, exacerbate the chronic and sub-acute renal lesions which developed in those animals which survived inoculation without developing acute infection. This probably resulted from excretion by the kidneys of fungal growth stimulants derived from the placental extract.