Sixty years of amphotericin B: an overview of the main antifungal agent used to treat invasive fungal infections

FB Cavassin, JL Baú-Carneiro, RR Vilas-Boas… - Infectious Diseases and …, 2021 - Springer
Introduced in the late 1950s, polyenes represent the oldest family of antifungal drugs. The
discovery of amphotericin B and its therapeutic uses is considered one of the most important …

Antimicrobial properties of the Ag, Cu nanoparticle system

X Fan, LH Yahia, E Sacher - Biology, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The antimicrobial properties of Ag and Cu nanoparticles, their mixtures
and their alloys, are reviewed. Abstract Microbes, including bacteria and fungi, easily form …

Antimicrobial properties of antidepressants and antipsychotics—possibilities and implications

M Caldara, N Marmiroli - Pharmaceuticals, 2021 - mdpi.com
The spreading of antibiotic resistance is responsible annually for over 700,000 deaths
worldwide, and the prevision is that this number will increase exponentially. The …

Anti-biofilm action of biological silver nanoparticles produced by aspergillus tubingensis and antimicrobial activity of fabrics carrying it

AG Rodrigues, RC Ruiz… - Biointerface …, 2021 - repositorio.butantan.gov.br
Biological silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) were synthesized using the marine endophytic
fungus Aspergillus tubingensis and inhibited Bacillus subtilis biofilm formation at low …

A review of recent research on antifungal agents against dermatophyte biofilms

FO Pereira - Medical Mycology, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Dermatophytoses are inflammatory cutaneous mycoses caused by dermatophyte fungi of
the genera Trichophyton, Microsporum, and Epidermophyton that affect both …

Identification of microbiome etiology associated with drug resistance in pleural empyema

Z Chen, H Cheng, Z Cai, Q Wei, J Li, J Liang… - Frontiers in Cellular …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Identification of the offending organism and appropriate antimicrobial therapy are crucial for
treating empyema. Diagnosis of empyema is largely obscured by the conventional bacterial …

Inhibitory effects of cold atmospheric plasma on the growth, virulence factors and HSP90 gene expression in Candida albicans

F Ebrahimi-Shaghaghi, Z Noormohammadi… - Archives of Biochemistry …, 2021 - Elsevier
In spite of the abundance of antifungal therapies, 75% of women in the world suffer from the
second most common cause of vaginal infection named vulvovaginal candidiasis. This …

Development of pH-responsive nanocomposites with remarkably synergistic antibiofilm activities based on ultrasmall silver nanoparticles in combination with …

X Li, B Li, R Liu, Y Dong, Y Zhao, Y Wu - Colloids and Surfaces B …, 2021 - Elsevier
Bacterial biofilms are responsible for many chronic infections because antibacterial agents
exhibit poor penetration into the dense matrix barrier and cannot easily reach the internal …

New perspectives on the topical management of recurrent candidiasis

ACS Ré, JF Martins, M Cunha‐Filho… - Drug Delivery and …, 2021 - Springer
Candidiasis is a common opportunistic infection caused by fungi of the Candida genus that
affects mainly mucocutaneous tissues (eg, vaginal, oral, and mammary). This condition has …

Microbes of the human eye: Microbiome, antimicrobial resistance and biofilm formation

K Ranjith, S Sharma, S Shivaji - Experimental Eye Research, 2021 - Elsevier
Background The review focuses on the bacteria associated with the human eye using the
dual approach of detecting cultivable bacteria and the total microbiome using next …