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In vivo direct interaction of the antibiotic primycin on a Candida albicans clinical isolate and its ergosterol-less mutant.
Acta biologica Hungarica - 1 Mar 2012
Virág Eszter, Juhász A, Kardos R, Gazdag Z, Papp G, Pénzes Agota, Nyitrai M, Vágvölgyi Cs, Pesti M
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Interaction of primycin antibiotic with plasma membrane, and its indirect biological effects were investigated in this study. The antifungal activity of primycin against 13 human pathogenic Candida ATCC and CBS reference species and 74 other Candida albicans clinical isolates was investigated with a microdilution technique. No primycin-resistant strain was detected. Direct interaction of primycin with the plasma...
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