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In vitro determination of phagocytic indices of Candida berkhout species by rat peritoneal macrophages

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The aims of this investigation were to study and describe the behaviour of 13 different species of Candida, as compared with C. albicans, by means of phagocytosis assays in vitro.

Tests were carried out with rat peritoneal macrophages in contact with quantified suspensions of live yeasts. Phagocytic indices, candidacidal activity and filamentation rat were tested microscopically after 3 h incubation at 37 ° C.

The phagocytic indices obtained allowed us to separate the fungi into four groups. Candida albicans and tropicalis belong to Group I; diddensii and shehatae, among others, belong to Group II; sake, krusei, viswanathii, etc., Group III; and C. glaebosa and haploid strains of Pichia ohmeri (C. guilliermondii var. membranaefaciens), Group IV. These data would suggest a possible correlation between pathogenesis and phagocytic indices.

There were no evidences of any phagocytes ability to kill yeasts. Candidacidal activity was absent in the species assayed. Yeast lysis may have been observed if our assays would have taken longer than 3 h.

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Salim, R., van Gelderen de Komaid, A. In vitro determination of phagocytic indices of Candida berkhout species by rat peritoneal macrophages. Mycopathologia 89, 25–34 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00437129

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