Antigenic analysis of yeast cell-walls

Agglutination and complement fixation tests with yeast cell-walls revealed an extensive and complex pattern of cross-reactions amongst 26 species of 20 genera of yeasts. Common antigens were found in all yeast cell-walls. Ascosporogenous yeasts possessed antigens not found in the asporogenous yeasts and vice versa. Nuberical analyses of serological properties confirmed this distinction and also that little differentiation could be achieved at generic level with respect to Saccharomyces and Candida spp.