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Abstract

A monoclonal antibody (mAb) exhibiting a high degree of species specificity for the yeast phase of the dimorphic fungus was produced by a modification of the standard mAb production protocol. The technique for generating mAbs involved the use of the immunosuppressive drug cyclophosphamide to diminish the response in mice to immunodominant cross-reactive epitopes. This mAb exhibited clear specificity and did not react by ELISA with the closely related genera and In Western blots it recognized a linear determinant on a 70–75 kDa molecule in antigen, with an extremely faint reactivity to antigens of identical molecular mass derived from and , and no reactivity against antigen.

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