COVID-19-associated mucormycosis and treatments

V Subramaniyan, S Fuloria, HK Darnal… - Asian Pacific Journal …, 2021 - journals.lww.com
In the current pandemic, COVID-19 patients with predisposing factors are at an increased
risk of mucormycosis, an uncommon angioinvasive infection that is caused by fungi with …

The in vivo anti-Candida albicans activity of flavonoids

W Nguyen, L Grigori, E Just, C Santos… - Journal of Oral …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background Emerging drug-resistant strains of Candida albicans have led to the recurrence
of fungal disease, rendering conventional drug therapies ineffective. Although in vitro …

Anti-Biofilm Activity of Cannabidiol against Candida albicans

M Feldman, RV Sionov, R Mechoulam, D Steinberg - Microorganisms, 2021 - mdpi.com
Candida albicans is a common fungal pathogen in humans. Biofilm formation is an important
virulence factor of C. albicans infections. We investigated the ability of the plant-derived …

Vesicular nanocarriers for phytocompounds in wound care: preparation and characterization

DA Safta, C Bogdan, ML Moldovan - Pharmaceutics, 2022 - mdpi.com
The need to develop wound healing preparations is a pressing challenge given the
limitations of the current treatment and the rising prevalence of impaired healing wounds …

Candida auris, a singular emergent pathogenic yeast: its resistance and new therapeutic alternatives

L Fernandes, R Ribeiro, M Henriques… - European Journal of …, 2022 - Springer
Nowadays, fungal infections affect millions of people across the world. Candida auris, a new
emergent yeast, is a worrisome pathogen because it associates with a high rate of incidence …

Recent progress on anti-Candida natural products

SUN Fu-Juan, LI Min, GU Liang, W Ming-Ling… - Chinese Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Candida is an intractable life-threatening pathogen. Candida infection is extremely difficult to
eradicate, and thus is the major cause of morbidity and mortality in immunocompromised …

Nanosystems against candidiasis: a review of studies performed over the last two decades

VHS Araujo, JL Duarte, GC Carvalho… - Critical Reviews in …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
The crescent number of cases of candidiasis and the increase in the number of infections
developed by non-albicans species and by multi-resistant strains has taken the attention of …

An overview of opportunistic fungal infections associated with COVID-19

N Kangabam, V Nethravathy - 3 Biotech, 2023 - Springer
The COVID-19 survivors and long-term steroid administered patients exhibit a variety of
fungal co-infections. The lives of COVID-19 patients and survivors are hampered by fungal …

Anti-Candida activity of the water-soluble lectin from Moringa oleifera seeds (WSMoL)

LMM Santos, PM Silva, MC Moura, ARC Junior… - Journal of Medical …, 2021 - Elsevier
This work reports the effects of the water-soluble lectin from Moringa oleifera seeds
(WSMoL) on growth and survival of Candida species. In addition, cellular alterations linked …

Antifungal and Anti-Biofilm Effects of Caffeic Acid Phenethyl Ester on Different Candida Species

I Alfarrayeh, E Pollák, Á Czéh, A Vida, S Das, G Papp - Antibiotics, 2021 - mdpi.com
This study investigated the effect of CAPE on planktonic growth, biofilm-forming abilities,
mature biofilms, and cell death of C. albicans, C. tropicalis, C. glabrata, and C. parapsilosis …