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The incidence of the serological groups of Candida albicans in southern England

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2009

F. C. Stallybrass
F. C. Stallybrass
Affiliation:
Department of Bacteriology, St Thomas's Hospital Medical School, London, S.E.1
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Cultures of C. albicans have been classified into two groups by means of a double diffusion precipitin test employing rabbit antisera and polysaccharide extracts. In the present series it has been found that 75% of cultures belong to group A and 25% to group B, and it is suggested that the higher incidence of group B strains occurring in the sputum of hospital in-patients with chest disease may be the result of reinfection by attenuated forms which persist in the environment.

My thanks are due to many colleagues who provided me with the strains of C. albicans, and to Prof. H. Hare for helpful criticism in the preparation of this paper.

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Research Article
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Journal of Hygiene , Volume 62 , Issue 3 , September 1964 , pp. 395 - 399
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1964

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