Antigenic similarities to Paracoccidioides brasiliensis in thermo-dependent dimorphic fungi isolated from soil in Botucatu, SP, Brazil
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1997-01-01
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Sano, A.
Nishimura, K.
Horie, Y.
Franco, M.
Mendes, Rinaldo Poncio [UNESP]
Coelho, Kunie Iabuki Rabello [UNESP]
Scapolio, SHB
Fukushima, K.
deCamargo, Z. P.
Miyaji, M.
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Kluwer Academic Publ
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We compared the antigenic characteristics of two thermo-dependent dimorphic fungi isolated from soil in Botucatu, an endemic area of paracoccidioidomycosis (PCM) and Paracoccidioides brasiliensis. The soil isolates grew as cerebriform colonies at 37 degrees C (yeast form) and as cottonous colonies at 25 degrees C (mycelial form). No pathogenicity for ddY mice or hamsters were observed. In immunodiffusion test, there were precipitation bands between the 2 soil isolates and pooled PCM patient sera. There were also common precipitation bands at 21, 50 and 58 kDa between the soil isolates antigens and PCM patient sera by Western-blotting, but no gp43 kDa band. No gene for gp43 kDa protein was detected in the soil isolates by PCR. The fact that these isolates were obtained from an endemic area of PCM and there were some antigenic similarities between the soil isolates and P. brasiliensis in immunodiffusion test and Western-blotting may have some importance in epidemiological surveys done with paracoccidioidin as well interfering with the immune response of the exposed population.
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Brazil, dimorphic fungi, ecology, Paracoccidioides brasiliensis
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Mycopathologia. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publ, v. 138, n. 1, p. 37-41, 1997.