Transfer factor therapy in a patient with chronic vaginal candidiasis.

A 32-year-old patient with chronic vaginal candidiasis was treated with 8 units of Transfer Factor (TF). Smears and cultures for Candida aZbicans became negative. Vaginal discharge and itching ceased, and the clinical condition of the vagina improved. Formerly negative delayed type skin tests with candidm converted to positive and Candida lymphocyte stimulation became measurable, suggesting that a defective cellular immunity towards Candida aas restored by TF. Candidiasis reappeared a few months after the last dose of TF when measurable cellular immunity towards candidin was still present. The condition responded rapidly to a local treatment with 5-fluoro-cytosin.