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A Soluble Tetrazolium-Based Reduction Assay to Evaluate the Effect of Antibodies on Candida tropicalis Biofilms
Published on: September 16, 2022
Enzymatic activities of Candida tropicalis isolated from hospitalized patients
M A Galán-Ladero1, M T Blanco, B Sacristán
1Area of Microbiology, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Extremadura, Badajoz, Spain.
Abstract:
Secretion of hydrolytic enzymes is considered a virulence factor in Candida spp. Extracellular enzymatic activities in 29 clinical isolates of Candida tropicalis were analyzed by plate assays. C. tropicalis, similar to Candida albicans, showed elevated hemolytic and esterase activities. However, unlike C. albicans, low aspartyl protease and very low phospholipase activities were detected in C. tropicalis isolates.

