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- Chlamydia trachomatis is a major bacterial STI in China, and this study aimed to better understand its genotypes among men who have sex with men (MSM) and men who have sex with women (MSW) in Guangzhou using a high-resolution method called MLVA-ompA.
- The research collected and analyzed specimens from 51 MSM and 96 MSW, identifying 144 samples with distinct ompA genotypes, revealing that MSM had 4 genotypes while MSW had 9, with no mixed infections present.
- Findings showed significant differences in the prevalent genotypes between the two groups, with higher discriminatory power from the MLVA-ompA method compared to
Antifungal curcumin promotes chitin accumulation associated with decreased virulence of Sporothrix schenckii.
Int Immunopharmacol
May 2016
Department of Dermatology and Venereology, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China. Electronic address:
Curcumin, a yellow polyphenol compound, is known to possess antifungal activity for a range of pathogenic fungi. However, the fungicidal mechanism of curcumin (CUR) has not been identified. We have occasionally found that chitin redistributes to the cell wall outer layer of Sporothrix schenckii (S.
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