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SUBMITTER: Feyaerts AF
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5834617 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Feyaerts Adam F AF Mathé Lotte L Luyten Walter W De Graeve Stijn S Van Dyck Katrien K Broekx Lize L Van Dijck Patrick P
Scientific reports 20180302 1
Multi-resistant microorganisms continue to challenge medicine and fuel the search for new antimicrobials. Here we show that essential oils and their components are a promising class of antifungals that can have specific anti-Candida activity via their vapour-phase. We quantify the vapour-phase-mediated antimicrobial activity (VMAA) of 175 essential oils and 37 essential oil components, representing more than a 1,000 unique molecules, against C. albicans and C. glabrata in a novel vapour-phase-me ...[more]