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Abstract
Peripheral blood mononuclear cells from humans with treated blastomycosis or from normal persons were cultured with live Blastomyces dermatitidis yeast. There was no inhibition of growth of the fungus in this suspension culture technique but morphologic and functional differences of the human cells were great between the two groups. Lymphocyte stimulation by live Blastomyces yeast was found in the patient group but not in the normal donors. These events add to the observations that cellular immunity is expressed in blastomycosis.Entities:
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Year: 1984 PMID: 6513994 DOI: 10.1007/bf00436902
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Mycopathologia ISSN: 0301-486X Impact factor: 2.574