Candida species are an uncommon cause of meninigitis. Given the rarity of this infection, the epidemiology, prognosis, and optimal therapy for Candida meningitis are poorly defined. The authors report on a paraplegic patient due to spinal cord injury who developed C. tropicalis meningitis. In addition, we review and discuss other reported cases of C. tropicalis meningitis in the medical literat...

INTRODUCTION This study aimed to isolate and identify Candida spp. from the environment, health practitioners, and patients with the presumptive diagnosis of candidiasis in the Pediatric Unit at the Universitary Hospital of the Jundiaí Medical College, to verify the production of enzymes regarded as virulence factors, and to determine how susceptible the isolated samples from patients with cand...

Candidosis caused by non-Candida albicans Candida (NCAC) species have been increased in recent years, namely due Candida glabrata, Candida tropicalis and Candida parapsilosis. Furthermore, candidosis is facilitated by a number of virulence factors, such as adherence to medical devices and/or host cells, biofilm formation and secretion of enzymes. Thus, the main goal of this study was to charact...

Some [(5Z)-(5-arylalkylidene-4-oxo-2-thioxo-1,3-thiazolidin-3-yl)]acetic acids were prepared as potential antifungal compounds. The general synthetic approach to all synthesized compounds is presented. Lipophilicity of all the discussed rhodanine-3-acetic acid derivatives was analyzed using a reversed phase high performance liquid chromatography (RP-HPLC) method. The procedure was performed und...

In this research, 11 yeast strains with ability to grow on petroleum sludge were isolated from effluent of a petroleum refinery. Based on growth on mineral media contaminated petroleum sludge, two isolates were selected as the super strains. Meanwhile, results based on biochemical and morphological experiments on the strains indicated that the two selected isolates belonged to Candida and Proto...

The opportunistic yeastlike fungi of the genus Candida comprise three species which are proteolytic in vitro. Among them, C. albicans and C. tropicalis are of foremost medical importance. However, a strict correlation between extracellular proteolytic activity and virulence is opposed by the low virulence of the third proteolytic species, C. parapsilosis. We purified the secretory acid proteina...

several strains of saccharomyces cerevisiae were isolated from different sources. these strains were under taken for ethanol tolerance analysis and growth under stress condition. exponential phase to various concentrations of ethanol (2–26% v/v) for 1 h was used for isolation of resistant strains. viable cells were isolated and purified by inoculation of diluted samples on yeast extract peptone...

The risk factors for and presentation of Candida tropicalis fungemia, in comparison with those of Candida albicans, have been incompletely characterized. We compared 43 cases of C. tropicalis fungemia with 148 cases of C. albicans fungemia. In univariate analysis, patients with C. tropicalis fungemia were more likely to have leukemia (P=.0006), prolonged neutropenia (P=.03), and a positive bloo...

The effect of minimum inhibitory concentrations (MICs) of six novel fenpropimorph derivatives on lipid and sterol composition of Candida albicans, Cryptococcus neoformans, Malassezia pachydermatis and Malassezia furfur was investigated. The MICs for the most effective derivatives were found in the range from 3.7 to 56.7 microM and were 2-3 times lower compared to the commercial fungicide bifona...

The aim of this study was to investigate the interaction of Candida tropicalis with three different human cell lines: TCC-SUP (epithelial cells from urinary bladder), HeLa (epithelial cells from cervical carcinoma) and Caco-2 (epithelial cells from colorectal adenocarcinoma). In particular we sought to assess the degree of cell damage and activity reduction induced by C. tropicalis adhesion and...