Studies on Agar from <i>Gracilaria confervoides</i> Grev. III

Studies of Agar-digesting Bacteria.

Protein-Carbohydrate Interaction III. Agar Gel-Diffusion Studies on the Interaction of Concanavalin A, a Lectin Isolated from Jack Bean, with Polysaccharidesl

Concanavalin A, a protein isolated from the jack bean (Canavalia ensijormis), has previously been shown to form a precipitate with glycogen and yeast mannan, and more recently with dextrans and amylopectin. Double-diffusion precipitation studies in agar gel have been found to afford a very sensitive and satisfactory method for investigating the interaction of concanavalin A with certain types o...

Differentiation of Candida dubliniensis from Candida albicans on rosemary extract agar and oregano extract agar.

Candida dubliniensis is a recently described pathogenic species which shares many phenotypic features with Candida albicans and therefore, may be misidentified in microbiological laboratories. Because molecular methods can be onerous and unfeasible in routine mycological laboratories with restricted budgets such as those in developing countries, phenotypic techniques have been encouraged in the...

Differentiation of Candida dubliniensis from Candida albicans on staib agar and caffeic acid-ferric citrate agar.

The methods currently available for the identification of the pathogenic yeast Candida dubliniensis all have disadvantages in that they are time-consuming, expensive, and/or, in some cases, unreliable. In a recent study (P. Staib and J. Morschhäuser, Mycoses 42:521-524; 1999) of 14 C. dubliniensis and 11 C. albicans isolates, it was suggested that the ability of C. dubliniensis to produce rough...

Studies on Plasma Protein. III. Malaria

Two distinct groups of cases were encountered during the study of plasma proteins in malarial patients. One was acute malaria, which showed all the features of an acute febrile infection. The other was chronic relapsing malaria, some cases were inadequately treated, and many had : hepatomegaly and splenomegaly. Plasma proteins of 40 patients, admitted in the hospital, were studied and in all of...