Medicinal plants are facing threats due to loss of habitat and overexploitation of knows species. Therefore the present work shows utilization of essential oil from discarded leaves of Psidium guajava Linn. against human dermatophytic fungi Trichophyton rubrum, T. mentagrophytes, Trichophyton violaceum, Trichophyton tonsurans, Epidermophyton floccosum, Microsporum gypseum and Microsporum canis....

Microsporum (M.) canis is the most common fungus to cause tinea capitis in Europe, especially in the Mediterranean region and South and Central Europe. Fungal scalp infections caused by M. canis tend to be non-inflammatory. Recently, a growing number of cases of tinea capitis characterized by inflammatory infection caused by M. canis and M. gypseum have been registered. We present a case of hig...

Infectious diseases are one of the main causes of high morbidity and mortality in human beings around the world. Currently the marine is an important source of medicinal products since the marine ecosystem,particularly seaweeds are directly exposed and are susceptible to ambient micro organisms such as bacteria fungi and viruses. In the present study, we assessed the antibacterial and antifunga...

This study was conducted to evaluate the effect of ethanolic, ethyl acetate and hexane extracts of Indian medicinal plants Azadirachta indica and Acalypha indica leaves against dermatophytes (60 isolates of Trichophyton rubrum, 22 isolates of Trichophyton mentagrophytes, 9 isolates of Microsporum gypseum and 9 isolates of Trichophyton tonsurans). Of the three extracts used the ethanolic and eth...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Essential oils extracted from different plants are extensively used in perfume, beverage, and food industries and are reported to exhibit antimicrobial activities against a variety of fungi. Zhumeria majdae belonging to the Lamiaceae family is a rare and endemic medicinal plant species in Iran, with a strong and pleasant odor. The leaves of this plant have been used for m...

In this study, in vitro antidermatophytic activity against Trichophyton mentagrophytes, Trichophyton rubrum, Microsporum canis, and Microsporum gypseum was studied by disk diffusion test and assessment of minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) using CLSI broth macrodilution method (M38-A2). Moreover, antileishmanial and cytotoxicity activity of B. vulgaris and berberine against promastigotes of...

INTRODUCTION Dermatophytoses are considered a public health problem. The objectives of this study were to determine the evolution of their prevalence in the metropolitan area of Porto Alegre, Brazil, and to analyze the dermatophyte species distribution according to body site and demographic characteristics of the patients. METHODOLOGY This work was a retrospective analysis of data from patien...