Keywords :
Amphotericin B/pharmacology; Animals; Antifungal Agents/pharmacology; Cells, Cultured; Deoxycholic Acid/pharmacology; Drug Combinations; Female; Fusarium/drug effects/immunology; Humans; Macrophages, Alveolar/drug effects/immunology; Phosphatidylcholines/pharmacology; Phosphatidylglycerols/pharmacology; Rabbits
Abstract :
[en] Fusarium spp. have emerged as important causes of invasive fungal infections in immunocompromised patients. Rabbit pulmonary alveolar macrophages (PAMs) exhibited fungicidal activity against conidia of Fusarium solani and achieved a time-dependent increase in killing. Neither deoxycholate amphotericin B (DAMB) nor amphotericin B lipid complex (ABLC) exerted a suppressive effect on PAMs by decreasing their conidiocidal activity against F. solani. On the contrary, at a concentration of 0.125 microg ml(-1), ABLC and, to a lesser degree, DAMB additively augmented the fungicidal activity of pulmonary alveolar macrophages against conidia of Fusarium solani.
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