Trichophyton Crateriforme in India

Antidermatophytic activity of Solanum indicum L. from North East India

Chloroform, Methanol and Water extract of Solanum indicum Linn., a widely used food and medicinal plant of Assam, India was investigated for its in vitro antifungal activity against five different dermatophytic fungi viz., Trichophyton mentagrophytes, Trichophyton rubrum, Trichophyton tonsurans, Microsporum gypseum and Microsporum fulvum. Agar well diffusion method was used to determine the inh...

Trichophyton Purpureum Infection in India

Genome sequence of a clinical isolate of dermatophyte, Trichophyton rubrum from India.

Trichophyton rubrum is one of the major causative agents of dermatophytosis in humans worldwide. We report the draft genome sequence of T. rubrum var. raubitschekii from Delhi, India, isolated from a patient presenting symptoms of onychomycosis. The total estimated genome size of the clinical isolate is 25.2 MB containing 8265 predicted protein-coding sequences, 91 tRNA and 15 rRNA genes. Seque...

Epidemiological studies on Dermatophytosis in human patients in Himachal Pradesh, India

Dermatophytes are among the common fungal agents implicated in superficial skin infections worldwide. They include species of Trichophyton, Microsporum and Epidermophyton. In hot and humid climates of tropical and subtropical regions, the incidence of these pathogens is higher. We present in this article, the epidemiological data regarding the prevalence of different dermatophyte species involv...

Clxxviii. Studies in the Biochemistry of Micro-organisms

SPIcuLIsPoRIc acid (C17H2806, the y-lactone of y-hydroxy-38-dicarboxypentadecanoic acid) was first isolated by Clutterbuck et al. [1931] as a metabolic product of P. spiculisporum Lehman, when grown on Czapek-Dox solution with glucose as sole source of carbon. They also determined its structural formula. Later, Birkinshaw and Raistrick [1934] showed that this acid together with a related acid, ...