Infectious Disease Therapy
Yeast adhesin analogs can prevent intestinal C. albicans infection
Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, January 7th, 2003
"The pathogenic yeast Candida albicans displays at its cell surface beta-1,2 oligomannosides (beta-1,2-Mans)," explained Francoise Dromer and colleagues at the Pasteur Institute and Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, the University of Lille Hospital Center in Lille, and the University of Angers in Angers.
Synthetic beta-1,2-Man analogs virtually abolished intestinal C. albicans colonization in animals, Dromer and coauthors found.
The researchers evaluated the effects of synthetic...
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