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Findings from E. Machova and co-authors broaden understanding of life sciences
March 25th, 2009
"Antifungal properties of rabbit antiserum prepared by immunization are reported. The immunization was done by a chemically prepared conjugate consisting of Candida albicans (serotype A) surface mannan and human serum albumin," researchers in Bratislava, Slovakia report. "Addition of rabbit antiserum to D-glucose medium inoculated with C albicans effectively inhibited its growth. Moreover, C albicans cells treated with rabbit antiserum revealed the entire loss of viability (expressed as decreased mitochondrial dehydrogenase activity). No growth of treated cells on an agar plate was observed," wrote E. Machova and colleagues. The researchers...
Source: Vaccine Weekly (2009-03-25)
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