Antifungal Effect Of Natural Phenolic Compound S Against Human Fungal Pathogen

Abstract

Among different issues persisting in daily life fungal infections is one of the major tribulations knocking door to door and is enhancing in its strength due to its power to defy against the drugs which are in regular use. It becomes more perilous in country like India because of the climate that suits for the wide variety of fungi which can easily propagate in the environment. The most newlinecommon opportunistic mycosis in India is invasive candidiasis but appearance of fungal newlinerhinusinositis, penicilliosis marneffei and zygomycosis are some of the unique situations coming newlineinto sight because of the causative agent known as Apophysomyces elegans (Arunaloke newlineChakrabarti, Review 2008). Candida albicans is an opportunistic human fungal pathogen resides newlinehuman gut flora showing its commensal nature. However during immunocompromised conditions such as HIV, cancer and organ transplantation it converts into its pathogenic form and is the fourth largest microbial infection responsible for the mortality of microbial infection. newline