Antifungal activity and mechanism of heat-transformed ginsenosides from notoginseng against Epidermophyton floccosum, Trichophyton rubrum, and Trichophyton mentagrophytes

Sertaconazole nitrate shows fungicidal and fungistatic activities against Trichophyton rubrum, Trichophyton mentagrophytes, and Epidermophyton floccosum, causative agents of tinea pedis.

The fungistatic and fungicidal activities of sertaconazole against dermatophytes were evaluated by testing 150 clinical isolates of causative agents of tinea pedis, Trichophyton rubrum, Trichophyton mentagrophytes, and Epidermophyton floccosum. The overall geometric means for fungistatic and fungicidal activities of sertaconazole against these isolates were 0.26 and 2.26 μg/ml, respectively, al...

Differentiation of Trichophyton Rubrum and Trichophyton Mentagrophytes by Pigment Production.

Degradation of Ethanol by Two Species of Dermatophytes: Trichophyton mentagrophytes and Epidermophyton floccosum

Ethanol is an important industrial product. It can be degraded by microorganisms to use as sole source of carbon. Trichophyton mentagrophytes and Epidermophyton floccosum are most known species of dermatophytes. Their ability to degrade ethanol was detected. Low concentrations of ethanol enhanced two tested species of dermatophytes to grow on culture medium faster in absence of carbon source. A...

In vitro Antifungal Activity of Limonene against Trichophyton rubrum

In this study, the antifungal activities of limonene against Trichophyton rubrum were evaluated via broth microdilution and vapor contact assays. In both assays, limonene was shown to exert a potent antifungal effect against T. rubrum. The volatile vapor of limonene at concentrations above 1 µl/800 ml air space strongly inhibited the growth of T. rubrum. The MIC value was 0.5% v/v in the broth ...

enzyme activities in trichophyton rubrum, trichophyton mentagrophytes and trichophyton verrucosum

since most of the studies on chemical compounds of dermatophytes have shown the existence of a relationship between their pathogenisity and proteolytec enzymes. activities of 19 different enzymes in viable mycelia and cytoplasmic extracts of t.rubrum (cetr), t.mentagrophytes (cetm) and t.verrucosum (cetv) were investigated by the api-zym system. the results showed that viable mycelia of t.rubrm...