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A hidden battle in the dirt: Soil amoebae interactions with Paracoccidioides spp
Albuquerque, Patrícia; Nicola, André Moraes; Magnabosco, Diogo Almeida Gomes; da Silveira Derengowski, Lorena; Crisóstomo, Luana SoaresMade available in DSpace on 2020-12-12T01:42:02Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2019-01-01; Paracoccidioides spp. are thermodimorphic fungi that cause a neglected tropical disease (paracoccidioidomycosis) that is endemic to Latin America. These fungi inhabit the soil, where they live as saprophytes with no need for a mammalian host to complete their life cycle. Despite this, they developed sop...
Activity of scorpion venom-derived antifungal peptides against planktonic cells...
Guilhelmelli, Fernanda; Vilela, Nathália; Smidt, Karina S.; Oliveira, Marco Antônio de; Álvares, Alice da Cunha MoralesThe incidence of fungal infections has been increasing in the last decades, while the number of available antifungal classes remains the same. The natural and acquired resistance of some fungal species to available therapies, associated with the high toxicity of these drugs on the present scenario and makes an imperative of the search for new, more efficient and less toxic therapeutic choices. Antimicrobial pep...