Effect of Nucleotide Restriction and Supplementation on Resistance to Experimental Murine Candidiasis

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The influence of dietary nucleotides on susceptibility to candidiasis in mice was studied using two criteria: animal survival and recovery of viable Candida albicans organisms from the kidney and spleen. One-month-old mice were placed on one of five diets with varying nucleotide content. The results show that mice maintained on a nucleotide-free diet (NF) exhibit a significantly decreased mean survival time and a significantly increased viable organism recovery in the spleen following intravenous injection of graded inocula of C. albicans compared to mice fed diets containing RNA or uracil as a nucleotide source. (Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition 12:49-52, 1988)