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Provedor de dados: 	60	
País: 	Brazil	
Título: 	Efficacy of Origanum essential oils for inhibition of potentially pathogenic fungi	
Autores: 	Souza,Nadábia Almeida B; Lima,Edeltrudes de Oliveira; Guedes,Diego Nunes; Pereira,Fillipe de Oliveira; Souza,Evandro Leite de; Sousa,Frederico Barbosa de.	
Data: 	2010-09-01	
Ano: 	2010	
Palavras-chave: 	Essential oil; Pathogen fungi; Origanum sp/antifungal property.	
Resumo: 	This study aimed to assess the efficacy of O. vulgare L. and O. majorana L. essential oil in inhibiting the growth and survival of potentially pathogenic fungal strains and also sought to evaluate the possible mechanisms involved in the establishment of the antifungal property of the tested essential oils through assays of osmotic stability and morphogenesis. Test strains included in this study were Candida albicans ATCC 7645, C. tropicalis LM-14, C. krusei LM-09, Cryptococcus neoformans FGF-5, Aspergillus flavus LM-02, A. fumigatus IPP-21, T. rubrum ATCC 28184, T. mentagrophytes LM-64, Microsporum gypseum ATCC 184, M. canis LM-36 and Cladosporium herbarium ATCC 26362. O. vulgare essential oil presented a MIC value of 80 µL/mL, while for O. majorana this was 160 µL/mL. C. krusei LM-09 was the only strain resistant to all assayed concentrations of both essential oils. O. vulgare and O. majorana essential oil at their MIC values provided a cidal effect against C. albicans ATCC 7645 after 4 h of exposure. O. vulgare essential oil at 80 µL/mL exhibited 100 % inhibition of the radial mycelia growth of T. rubrum ATCC 28184 and M. canis LM-36 for 14 days. Assayed fungus strain protected by sorbitol (osmo-protectant agent) grew in media containing higher concentrations of O. vulgare and O. majorana essential oil in comparison to media without sorbitol, suggesting some specificity of these essential oils for targeting cell wall in the fungi cell. Main morphological changes observed under light microscopy provided by the essential oil of O. vulgare in A. flavus LM-02 were decreased conidiation, leakage of cytoplasm, loss of pigmentation and disrupted cell structure indicating fungal wall degeneration. These results suggest that essential oils from Origanum could be regarded as a potential antifungal compound for controlling the growth of pathogen fungi and the occurrence of mycoses.	
Tipo: 	Info:eu-repo/semantics/article	
Idioma: 	Inglês	
Identificador: 	http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1984-82502010000300013	
Editor: 	Universidade de São Paulo, Faculdade de Ciências Farmacêuticas	
Relação: 	10.1590/S1984-82502010000300013	
Formato: 	text/html	
Fonte: 	Brazilian Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences  v.46 n.3 2010	
Fonte: 	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess