Antifungal activity of cerebrospinal fluid against Cryptococcus neoformans and Candida species
Antifungal activity of cerebrospinal fluid against Cryptococcus neoformans and Candida species
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DOI:
10.1046/j.1365-280x.1999.00240.x
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发表时间:
1999-10-01
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影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
Stevens, DA
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作者:
Brummer, E;Drasin, T;Stevens, DA
The effect of human cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) on the growth of Cryptococcus neoformans and Candida species was tasted in RPMI-1640. CSF alone was highly fungistatic for both yeasts and inhibited growth in a concentration-dependent manner. Unlike human serum, CSF did not collaborate with fluconazole for killing C. neoformans. Molecular sieve fractionation of CSF on a G-200 Sephadex column yielded a highly antifungal fraction with a molecular weight around 66 kDa. On SDS-PAGE this fraction migrated as a major and a minor band corresponding to the mobility of bovine serum albumin. These novel findings suggest that CSF contains a factor(s) that provides resistance to the growth of C. neoformans or Candida species.