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ArticleEuropean journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology2019

Activity of anti-CR3-RP polyclonal antibody against biofilms formed by Candida auris, a multidrug-resistant emerging fungal pathogen.

Jaroslava Dekkerová, Jose L Lopez-Ribot, Helena Bujdáková

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Article in European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed, 18 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Microorganisms · 2025
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  2. Microbiology spectrum · 2025
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  3. Innate immune response to Candida auris.Current opinion in microbiology · 2024
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  4. Current Perspectives of Antifungal Therapy: A Special Focus onJournal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024
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  10. Frontiers in immunology · 2020
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Jaroslava DekkerováDepartment of Microbiology and Virology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava, Ilkovičova 6, 84215, Bratislava, Slovakia.
Jose L Lopez-RibotDepartment of Biology and South Texas Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases, The University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, 78249, USA.
Helena BujdákováDepartment of Microbiology and Virology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava, Ilkovičova 6, 84215, Bratislava, Slovakia. helena.bujdakova@uniba.sk.
Comenius University Bratislava · SKThe University of Texas at San Antonio · US

Funding

Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic VEGA 1/0628/15Slovak Research and Development Agency APVV-15-0347
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Fungal biofilm has remained a serious medical problem that complicates treatment of mycoses. In particular, once biofilms are formed, they display high levels of resistance against most common antifungals. Candida auris is currently considered as a serious emerging fungal pathogen frequently exhibiting high levels of resistance to antifungals. Recent studies have confirmed that C. auris shares similarity with Candida albicans in regards to virulence-associated proteins involved in adherence and biofilm development. Complement receptor 3-related protein (CR3-RP) is one of the key surface antigens expressed by Candida species during biofilm formation. Here, we have investigated the presence of this cell surface moiety on the surface of C. auris, as well as the potential of anti-CR3-RP polyclonal antibody (Ab) to inhibit biofilm formation by this emerging fungal pathogen. Using indirect immunofluorescence and ELISA, we were able to confirm the presence of CR3-RP in C. auris cells within biofilms. Further, not only anti-CR3-RP Ab was able to inhibit biofilm formation by multiple C. auris strains when added during the adherence phase, but it also demonstrated activity against C. auris 24-h pre-formed biofilms, which compared favorably to levels of inhibition achieved by treatment with current conventional antifungals fluconazole, amphotericin B, and caspofungin. Overall, our data demonstrate the presence of this antigen on the surface of C. auris and points to the potential of anti-CR3-RP Ab in eradication of biofilms formed by this novel fungal pathogen.

Indexed as

Drug Resistance, Multiple, FungalAnimalsAntibodies, FungalAntifungal AgentsAntigens, SurfaceBiofilmsCandidaCandidiasisAntibodies, FungalAntifungal AgentsAntigens, SurfaceBiofilmCandida aurisCR3-RPPolyclonal antibodyResistance

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PMID30327897
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