as a vaccine against systemic aspergillosis: ‘’ a friend again? Free

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The mortality of clinical infections necessitates consideration of the utility of a vaccine. We have found that species can act as a protective vaccine against a lethal systemic infection, and describe experiments optimizing a subcutaneous regimen with killed yeast. Three injections of 2.5 mg given a week apart, 2 weeks prior to challenge, consistently, significantly, provided survival protection and reduction of infection in organs in survivors. The protection was independent of the strain of , and possibly even the species, and could be demonstrated in several inbred (including C′-deficient) and outbred mouse strains. The protective moiety(ies) appeared to reside in the cell wall and was resistant to 100 °C, but not to protease or formalin. Alum potentiated the protection. The protection was comparable or superior to that of several -specific preparations described in the literature. Other studies have indicated that heat-killed can protect against infection with at least three other fungal genera, raising the possibility of development of a panfungal vaccine, and such a vehicle has been studied in clinical trials, without dose-limiting toxicity.

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