T cells specific for Candida albicans antigens and producing type 2 cytokines in lesional mucosa of untreated HIV-infected patients with pseudomembranous oropharyngeal candidiasis

These findings, showing a non-protective Th0/Th2 response to C. albicans antigen in the blood and lesional mucosa of HIV-infected patients with POPC, may explain the high susceptibility of candidiasis in these subjects.