OBJECTIVE To develop an efficient method for evaluating cell surface hydrophobicity and to apply the method to demonstrate the effects of fungal growth conditions on cell surface properties. METHODS Yeast isolates were suspended in phosphate-buffered saline and mixed with deep blue-dyed polystyrene microspheres. Flow cytometry was used to detect the degree of microsphere binding to yeast cell...

BACKGROUND Yeasts represent the second cause of nail fungal infection in the world, and Candida albicans and Candida parapsilosis are the two most common species. OBJECTIVES To determine the yeast species frequency and their in vitro antifungal susceptibility, obtained from patients with clinical features suggestive of onychomycosis. METHODS A prospective study was carried out in four derma...

Used cooking oil (UCO) is a hydrocarbon that causes significant environmental pollution globally. Oil difficult pollutant to remove from the environment due its hydrophobic nature. Bioremediation preferred over chemical and physical remediation approaches as it more economical environmentally friendly. Hence, search for microbe with outstanding degrading capability imperative nature of hydrocar...

Yeast has been a very helpful organism for centuries, especially with respect to fermentation of sugars and production of bread. However, for an even longer time, yeast has been a distant relative of humans having diverged from a common ancestor, about one billion years ago. More than one third of the yeast genes have human counterparts, despite this evolutionary distance. Yeast and human ortho...

We evaluated matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry using VITEK MS (IVD database) and an oligonucleotide array based on the internal transcribed spacer-1 (ITS-1) and ITS-2 sequences of rRNA genes for the identification of Candida spp. from blood cultures. Five-hundred and twelve consecutive bloodstream yeast isolates were collected daily and initially ident...

This study examines the isolation and characterization of phenol-degrading-bacteria, Five isolates named C2, P4, M4, O3, S3, from effluent ceramic factories (C2), petrochemical (P4), pulp paper mill (M4), crude oil (O3) sewage water (S3) have been investigated. These were characterized depending on their morphological, biochemical characteristics, only one isolate was as a Gram-positive, strict...

BACKGROUND Oropharyngeal candidiasis continues to be a major opportunistic infection in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected patients. The objectives of this study were to investigate the prevalence, associated factors, and microbiologic features for oropharyngeal yeast colonization in HIV-infected patients. METHODS From October to December 2009, consecutive HIV-infected patients older...

One thousand six hundred and twenty yeast isolates were obtained from 54 spontaneous fermentations performed from grapes collected in 18 sampling sites of three vineyards (Vinho Verde Wine Region in northwest Portugal) during the 2001-2003 harvest seasons. All isolates were analyzed by mitochondrial DNA restriction fragment length polymorphism (mtDNA RFLP) and a pattern profile was verified for...

Abstract: Cerrado is the second largest phytogeographic domain in Brazil, with a huge ethnobotany variety, including fruit species that stand out for their economic, industrial, biotechnological and medicinal potential. The objective of this study was to characterize diversity culturable yeasts potential production hydrolytic enzymes fruits 13 native plants Brazil. Sequencing 26S rRNA gene iden...