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Peer-reviewed International journal
Oct, 2018

Immunohistochemical Cross-Reactivity Between Paracoccidioides sp. from Dolphins and Histoplasma capsulatum.

Mycopathologia
  • Shumoto G
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  • Ueda K
  • ,
  • Yamaguchi S
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  • Kaneshima T
  • ,
  • Konno T
  • ,
  • Terashima Y
  • ,
  • Yamamoto A
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  • Nagashima LA
  • ,
  • Itano EN
  • ,
  • Sano A

Volume
183
Number
5
First page
793
Last page
803
Language
English
Publishing type
Research paper (scientific journal)
DOI
10.1007/s11046-018-0295-0

Paracoccidioidomycosis ceti is a cutaneous disease of cetaceans caused by uncultivated Paracoccidioides brasiliensis or Paracoccidioides spp. Serological cross-reactions between paracoccidioidomycosis ceti and paracoccidioidomycosis, paracoccidioidomycosis and histoplasmosis, and paracoccidioidomycosis and coccidioidomycosis have been reported before. The present study aimed to detect immunohistochemical cross-reaction between antibodies to Paracoccidioides sp. and Histoplasma capsulatum, and vice versa. Thirty murine sera, obtained from experimental infections of 6 isolates of H. capsulatum, were reacted with paraffin-embedded yeast-form cells of Paracoccidioides sp. derived from a case of paracoccidioidomycosis ceti in Japan. The murine sera were also reacted with human isolates of H. capsulatum yeast cells, with P. brasiliensis yeast cells, and with fungal cells of Coccidioides posadasii. Three dolphins' sera from cases of paracoccidioidomycosis ceti, two human sera from patients with paracoccidioidomycosis, and a serum from a healthy person with a history of coccidioidomycosis were used in order to determine that the tested fungal cells reacted properly. Sera derived from mice infected with an isolate of H. capsulatum reacted positively against yeast cells of Paracoccidioides sp., yeast cells of P. brasiliensis, and fungal cells of C. posadasii, while those derived from other strains were negative. The present study recorded for the first time the cross-reaction between the yeast cells of H. capsulatum and antibodies against Paracoccidioides spp., the yeast cells of Paracoccidioides sp. and antibodies against H. capsulatum, the yeast cells of Paracoccidioides sp. and antibodies against Coccidioides sp., and fungal cells of C. posadasii and antibodies against Paracoccidioides spp.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11046-018-0295-0
PubMed
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30168080
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  • DOI : 10.1007/s11046-018-0295-0
  • ISSN : 0301-486X
  • Pubmed ID : 30168080

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