JoVE Immunology and Infection
Allan J. Guimarães, Luis R. Martinez, Joshua D. Nosanchuk
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
C57BL/6 mice have been used to study Hc pathogenesis and provide the best model. We are exploring the potential benefits of humoral immunity against this fungus and generated several mAbs [to histone H2B and a heat shock protein 60kDa] that we tested for their protective efficacy after intraperitoneal administration.