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A method is described for the induction of a specific antibody response to Candida albicans in cultures of normal human peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBL). PBL were cultured in the presence of whole C. albicans cells and the antibody response was evaluated by the ELISPOT technique, on plastic wells coated with a purified candidal cell well mannoprotein (MP). Under the conditions described here, a specific antibody response was obtained in all of the eight donors tested. The response was antigen-dependent and antigen-specific, peaked around day 10-12 of culture and the antibodies belonged to both the IgM and the IgG isotypes. By testing the cultured cells on MP from different Candida species, the method permitted the detection of antibodies directed against MP epitopes shared by C. albicans and C. parapsilosis.
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