Open AccessInfluence of tannins from Stryphnodendron adstringens on growth and virulence factors of Candida albicans
Author(s) -
Kelly Ishida,
João Carlos Palazzo de Mello,
Diógenes Aparı́cio Garcia Cortez,
Benedito Prado Dias Filho,
Tânia Ueda-Nakamura,
Celso Vataru Nakamura
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
the journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy/journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.124
H-Index - 194
eISSN - 1460-2091
pISSN - 0305-7453
DOI - 10.1093/jac/dkl377
Subject(s) - germ tube , candida albicans , microbiology and biotechnology , corpus albicans , nystatin , vero cell , cytotoxicity , virulence , biology , chemistry , gallic acid , biochemistry , antifungal , in vitro , antioxidant , gene
The main objective of this work was to investigate the antifungal activity of a crude extract, fractions and subfractions from Stryphnodendron adstringens (Mart.) Coville, known as 'barbatimão'.