A murine model of long-term colonization with Candida albicans, established by intubating
infant CBA/J mice, was used to study the effects of colonization on the development of …

Major models of candidosis used in experimental chemotherapy are critically reviewed, their
clinical relevance and predictiveness are assessed and factors are identified that can affect …

Background Candida species are among the most common etiologies of nosocomial
bloodstream infections, causing a mortality of> 40%. The murine model of hematogenously …

The ability of clinical isolates of Candida albicans and candida tropicalis to invade through
normal and damaged gastrointestinal mucosa was determined. Adult mice were treated with …

Purpose Candida endocarditis are rare, with a poor prognosis. Actually, the principal
problem concerns the growing incidence of nosocomial fungal infections. The objective of …

Amphotericin B (1 mg/kg of body weight, intravenous) and fluconazole (100 mg/kg,
intraperitoneal) were compared in the prophylaxis of experimental Candida endocarditis …

Two spontaneous cerulenin-resistant mutants of Candida albicans, 4918-2 and 4918-10,
were unable to adhere in vitro in fibrin-platelet clots. Because in vitro adherence correlates …

Mice and rabbits immunized intraperitoneally or intradermally with an ethanol-killed crude
Candida albicans antigen and non-immunized controls were infected intravenously with C …

THE incidence of candida infections is reported to be increasing. 1, 2 Although the organism
may be part of the normal flora of mucous membranes of healthy persons infections with this …

The mice showed delayed inflammatory response to intradermal inoculation of C. albicans
compared with controls. When challenged intravenously with a sublethal dose of C …