Janiere Pereira de Sousa, Aratã Oliveira Cortez Costa, Maria Clerya Alvino Leite, Felipe Queiroga Sarmento Guerra, Viviane Araújo da Silva, Camilla Pinheiro de Menezes, Fillipe Oliveira Pereira & Edeltrudes Oliveira Lima·International Journal of TROPICAL DISEASE & Health·2015
A limited number of antifungals and the emergence of resistant strains have hindered the treatment of candidiasis, making the search for new antifungals urgent. Citral is a monoterpene with known pharmacological properties, including antimicrobial action. Aims: Thus the objective...
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Research Article10.9734/IJTDH/2016/21423
Abrahão Alves de Oliveira Filho, Heloísa Mara Batista Fernandes, Janiere Pereira de Sousa, Gabriela Lemos de Azevedo Maia, José Maria Barbosa Filho, Thais Josy Castro Freire de Assis, Hilzeth Luna Freire Pêssoa & Edeltrudes Oliveira Lima·International Journal of TROPICAL DISEASE & Health·2014
Most of the flavonoids are considered as constitutive antimicrobial ingredients, especially those belonging to prenylated flavonoids, flavones and isoflavones. In the study, the flavonoid 5,7,4’-trimethoxyflavone was evaluated for its antifungal effects. Four fungal strains were...
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Research Article10.9734/IJTDH/2015/14060
Tassiana Barbosa Dantas, Sávio Benvindo Ferreira, Lilian Sousa Pinheiro, Camilla Pinheiro de Menezes, Felipe Queiroga Sarmento Guerra, Janiere Pereira de Sousa & Edeltrudes de Oliveira Lima·International Journal of TROPICAL DISEASE & Health·2015
Aims: The incidence of fungal infections has increased over the last ten years and fungi of the genus Penicillium can be found in various substrates and affect immunocompromised people, hospitalized patients, many animals and plants, as well as compromise the quality of air indoo...
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Research Article10.9734/IJTDH/2015/19210