Abstract
Aphanoascus spp. are keratinophylic fungi occasionally described as etiological agents of tinea-like dermatomycoses. The goal of this work was to immunochemically characterize somatic and metabolic soluble antigens prepared from 4 species of Aphanoascus. Electrophoresis in SDS-PAGE gel and immunoblotting with sera from rabbits experimentally immunized with both somatic and metabolic antigens have shown a similar pattern among the species analyzed. However, some differences were noted between the species of Aphanoascus. These results suggest the existence of species-specific antigens.
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Torres-RodrÍguez, J.M. Immunochemical characterization of somatic and metabolic antigens of 4 species of Aphanoascus : Preliminary results. Mycopathologia 142, 51–55 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1006996219803
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1006996219803