background: lactic acid bacteria (lab) isolated originally from sourdough are probably the best candidates as biopreservatives, because they are well adapted to the non-aseptic conditions in sourdough fermentation. the aim of the present study was to study antifungal properties of a dominant endogenous lab isolated from whole barley sourdough. methods: whole barley flour from a mixture of barle...

ETHNOPHARMACOLOGICAL RELEVANCE Several aromatic plants and their essential oils are known to possess antimicrobial and anti-inflammatory properties. Distichoselinum tenuifolium (Lag.) Garcia Martin & Silvestre, an Iberian endemism, is traditionally used in the treatment of contact dermatitis and skin infections. However, the cellular mechanisms through which this plant exerts their beneficial e...

Effects of different carbon sources on growth and production of antifungal agent(s) by Gymnopilus spectabilis were investigated. Different carbon sources including; Glucose, fructose, lactose, maltose, manitol and sucrose at the concentration of 10 g/l and slow releasing carbon sources including malt extract and soluble starch at the concentration of 2g/l were used. Inhibition of spore germinat...

conclusions the active compound may be a flavonoid. existence of flavonoids in tested fractions could be the important medicinal properties of m. communis leaves. further work is required to evaluate the exact effect of these biological compounds on animal model or human volunteers. results ethyl acetate and total methanolic extracts respectively had the best antifungal effects against three te...

The synthesis of a proline-rich cyclic heptapeptide, fanlizhicyclopeptide A (8), previouslyisolated from the fruits of Annona squamosa (sugar-apples), is described via coupling oftetrapeptide l-prolyl-l-tyrosyl-l-leucyl-l-proline methyl ester with tripeptide Boc-glycyl-lvalyl-l-proline followed by cyclization of the linear fragment having seven amino acid units.Structure of the synthesized cycl...

Background and Objective: Dermatophytosis is a superficial fungal disease. Prosopis farcta has attracted attention for ethnobotany and medical purposes. The present study aimed to investigate the antifungal properties of Prosopis farcta extracts against Trichophyton mentagrophytes (PTCC 5054) and five archived terbinafine resistant clinical isolates of T. mentagrophyte, based on an ethnobotanic...

Salvia officinalis L. (Lamiaceae) is a Mediterranean species, naturalized in many countries. In Jordan, it is used in traditional medicine as antiseptic, antiscabies, antisyphilitic, and anti-inflammatory, being frequently used against skin diseases. This study aimed the assessment of the antifungal and anti-inflammatory potential of its essential oils, and their cytotoxicity on macrophages and...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to investigate the antifungal effect of bee venom (BV) and sweet bee venom (SBV) against Candida albicans (C. albicans) clinical isolates. METHODS In this study, BV and SBV were examined for antifungal activities against the Korean Collection for Type Cultures (KCTC) strain and 10 clinical isolates of C. albicans. The disk diffusion method was used to ...

actinomycetes were isolated from marine sediment samples collected from the east coast of chennai, tamil nadu, india. well diffusion and agar plug methods were used for the evaluation of antibiotic production by these isolates against drug resistant methicillin- resistant staphylococcus aureus (mrsa) and vancomycin resistant enterococci (vre). the potential isolate vitbrk2 was mass cultured for...

In this work we highlight a possible synergistic anti-Candida effect between Melaleuca alternifolia, Origanum vulgare and Pelargonium graveolens essential oils and the antifungal compound Amphotericin B. The antifungal activity was assessed using the agar dilution method in eleven Candida strains. The results obtained indicate the occurrence of a synergistic interaction between the essential oi...