NB-002 is an oil-in-water emulsion designed for use for the treatment of skin, hair, and nail infections. The activity of NB-002 was compared to the activities of the available antifungal drugs against the major dermatophytes responsible for cutaneous infections, Trichophyton rubrum, Trichophyton mentagrophytes, Epidermophyton floccosum, and Microsporum spp., as well as 12 other genera of filam...

Dermatophytoses is a fungal infection responsible for cutaneous mycoses caused by dermatophytes, classification of filamentous fungi and queratinofílicos, able to degrade keratin present in skin, nails hair. This public health problem that affects 20 25% the world's population. The infections dermatophytes reach mainly developing countries, hot humid climate, factors promote your spread. princi...

the frequency of tinea pedis in patients with tinea cruris has not been elucidated. the main objective of this study is to define this frequency all patients referred to the mycological laboratory of razi hospital, tehran, during a 3-month period in 1997, who had a positive koh smear for dermatophyte in the groin area were included in the study. a culture from this site, and a smear and culture...

physiological mediators of human host such as androgenic hormones interfere pathogenic fungal growth. it has been revealed that the growth of yeasts as well as of dermatophytes is influenced by human androgenic hormones in vitro. in this reason for in vivo condition, the andrgenic hormones level must be measured in patients with dermatophytosis and healthy individuals. to this purpose we measur...

introduction: in this study, we evaluated the activity of garlic extract against dermatophytes which is planned to be used instead of chemical durgs. garlic has been widely used as medicine since ancient times for varieties of illnesses, including abdominal pain, parasitic infection, insect and snakebites, hemorrhoid and rheumatism. in the last decades, garlic has been reported to display antib...

Türkiye florasının en büyük cinsi olan Centaurea L.’ ya ait farklı türlerin etkinlikleri, ürettikleri bileşikler, insan sağlığı üzerine etkileri konusunda pek çok çalışma bulunmaktadır. Ancak urvillei DC. subsp. urvillei’ nin kullanılabilir kısımlarının (toprak üstü yaprak, çiçek) patojen mikroorganizmalar karşı antimikrobiyal özellikleri ilgili herhangi bir yapılmamıştır. 
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evaluating the in vitro antifungal activity of phlomis lanceolata, rhynchocorys elephas, otostegia persica and eremurus persicus, four species used in iranian traditional medicine, has been performed on the clinical isolates of the pathogenic fungi aspergillus fumigatus, a. flavus, trichophyton mentagrophytes, t. rubrum, t. verrucosum, microsporum canis, m. gypseum and epidermophyton floccosum ...

A total of 95 clinically diagnosed cases of dermatophytosis over a period of two years attending the department of Dermatology, RIMS, Hospital, Imphal, Manipur were studied mycologically in the Department of Microbiology, Regional Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS), Imphal, Manipur . Out of the total cases, by direct microscopy in KOH wet mount examination showed 39(41.05%) cases were positiv...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Onychomycosis is a common fungal infection which has been conducted in many parts of the world. The aim of this study was to evaluate the epidemiology and to identify the aetiological factors of onychomycosis in Mazandaran province, Iran. MATERIALS AND METHODS During the period of 10 years (2003-2012) 1100 patients suspected with onychomycosis, referred to the Mycolo...