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From: Presence of Candida cell wall derived polysaccharides in the sera of intensive care unit patients: relation with candidaemia and Candida colonisation

Figure 2

Kinetics of β- d- 1,3-glucan, mannan and mannan antibody in five patients with candidaemia relapses. The dates of subsequent Candida isolations from blood are indicated by arrows. All patients, except Patient 4 with no detectable mannan, had values above the cutoff point for all tests, but with different kinetics. β-d- 1,3-glucan (BDG) and mannan presented different kinetics of circulation in a single patient. The well-known transient nature of circulating mannan was observed and correlated with an inverse evolution of mannan antibody (Patients 1, 2, 3 and 5). Interestingly a sharp decrease in BDG was also observed over a short period of time (Patients 3, 4 and 5). cGLC/cBDG, concentration of BDG; cMn, concentration of mannan; Mn Ab, concentration of mannan antibody.

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