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Fungal antigens as a source of sensitization and respiratory disease in Scottish maltworkers

Clinical & Experimental Allergy, 1977
SummaryMycological and serological studies were carried out as part of a survey of respiratory disease in Scottish maltworkers. 70% of stained sputum smears from 574 workers showed the presence of higher plant cells and/or mycelia, and the spores of common environmental fungi. Penicillium spp. (90/%), Rhizopus stolonifer (48%) and yeasts (53%) were the
M. Greenberg, W. Blyth, E. S. Blackadder, I. W. B. Grant   +3 more
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Immunochemistry of Fungal Antigens (Part B)

1993
This chapter reviews some recent developments in the characterization of antigens that are potentially or actually useful as probes of the immune response in the primary systemic mycoses. Other sources should be consulted for a broader perspective.1–4 A species-specific immunodominant protein exocellular antigen (“exoantigen”) has been identified for ...
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Immunochemistry of Fungal Antigens at The Electron Microscopy Level

1988
Immunoelectronmicroscopy has proven to be a useful tool for the study of fungal antigenicity at the cellular level. The following paper reviews the different applications of this method and sums up the results so far obtained in our laboratory.
Johannes Müller, R. Kappe
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Quantification of Fungal Antigens in Soil with a Monoclonal Antibody-Based ELISA: Analysis and Reduction of Soil-Specific Bias.

Phytopathology, 1997
This paper describes methods to improve the use of immunoassays for quantification of soilborne fungal antigens. Calibration curves, prepared by diluting known quantities of an antigen into soil extracts and into soil, were described by a four-parameter ...
W. Otten, C. Gilligan, C. Thornton
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Antigen detection in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid for diagnosis of fungal pneumonia

Current Opinion in Pulmonary Medicine, 2011
The purpose of this review is to describe important findings published during the past 18 months using bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) for diagnosis of pulmonary mycoses.Clinical studies and meta-analysis have established a high sensitivity and specificity for Aspergillus galactomannan testing of BAL specimens for diagnosis of invasive aspergillosis ...
Lawrence J. Wheat, Thomas E. Davis, Kenneth S. Knox, Chadi A. Hage   +3 more
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Fungal pattern-recognition receptors and tetraspanins: partners on antigen-presenting cells

Trends in Immunology, 2010
Fungal pattern-recognition receptors (F-PRRs), including C-type lectins, Toll-like receptors, scavenger receptors and Fc/complement receptors, are crucial for inducing anti-fungal immune responses by antigen-presenting cells. The recent identification of specific F-PRR interactions with tetraspanins has shed new light on the functioning of F-PRRs in ...
Figdor, C.G., Spriel, A.B. van
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Shared themes of antigenic variation and virulence in bacterial, protozoal, and fungal infections

Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews, 1997
Pathogenic microbes have evolved highly sophisticated mechanisms for colonizing host tissues and evading or deflecting assault by the immune response. The ability of these microbes to avoid clearance prolongs infection, thereby promoting their long-term survival within individual hosts and, through transmission, between hosts.
Kirk W. Deitsch, E R Moxon, Thomas E. Wellems   +2 more
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Cross‐Reactive Antigens Between Pea and Some Fungal Plant Pathogens

Journal of Phytopathology, 1994
AbstractAntiserum to pea was used to analyse cross‐reactive antigens (CRA) between pea and some fungal plant pathogens with different levels of specificity towards this host by using both double diffusion and immunoblotting techniques. Non pathogens of pea were also included in the study.
SCALA, FELICE, CRISTINZIO, GENNARO, Coppola L., Del Sorbo G.   +3 more
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Prevalence of serum precipitating antibodies in horses to fungal and thermophilic actinomycete antigens: effects of environmental challenge.

Equine Veterinary Journal, 1991
Sera from 54 two- to three-year-old Thoroughbred horses from an English racing stable were examined for precipitins to antigen extracts prepared from 18 species of moulds (fungi and thermophilic actinomycetes) isolated from the same stable.
THERESA M. Madelin, A. F. Clarke, T. Mair   +2 more
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Delayed hypersensitivity to fungal antigens in mice. I. Use of the intradermal skin and footpad swelling tests as assays of active and passive sensitization.

Journal of Infectious Diseases, 1976
Mice were sensitized to Coccidioides immitis and Candida albicans antigens and tested for sensitivity by the intradermal and footpad swelling methods. In mice actively sensitized with killed antigen, antigen-specific intradermal and footpad induration ...
D. Rifkind, J. Frey, J. Davis, E. Petersen, M. Dinowitz   +4 more
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