The ultrastructure of Candida albicans infections
- 1 November 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Canadian Science Publishing in Canadian Journal of Microbiology
- Vol. 27 (11), 1156-1164
- https://doi.org/10.1139/m81-181
Abstract
Scrapings of Candida albicans plaques from the tongue and buccal mucosa of patients with oral candidiasis were examined electron microscopy. In addition, urine sediment from patients with infection of their catheterized urinary tracts was similar examined. Three types of C. albicans – oral epithelial cell interactions were noted: a loose adherence apparently mediated by ruthenium red positive matrix, a "tight" adherence where no space could be seen between the host and yeast cell, and invasions host cells by yeast hyphal elements. Adhesion of Candida blastospores to hyphal elements and adhesion of bacteria to Candida cells was also frequently observed.Urine sediments from patients with mixed bacteria–yeast infections demonstrated adhesion of the bacteria to the yeast cells. This phenomenon was also demonstrated in in vitro experiments and fibrous ruthenium red material invariably occupied the zo*** of adhesion.Phagocytosis of yeast by polymorphonuclear leukocytes was found in urinary, but not in oral, candidiasis. Our in vivo and vitro observations indicate that a ruthenium red positive matrix covers the surfaces involved in the yeast to yeast, yeast to ho and yeast to bacteria adhesion.This publication has 12 references indexed in Scilit:
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