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Published on: March 19, 2019
The lectin type of Candida albicans--an epidemiological marker relevant to pathogenesis
1Dermatologische Klinik und Poliklinik, Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany.
Abstract:
Fifty Candida albicans strains isolated from the oral cavities of HIV-infected patients were typed with 14 different lectins by means of agglutination reactions. Sixteen different lectin types could be distinguished, the most frequent type representing 22% of strains. A change in the lectin type was found in about half of the Candida albicans strains representing control cultures from identical individuals. A simplified typing scheme based on three lectins seems to be almost as efficacious for epidemiological application.
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