THE EFFECT OF ESSENTIAL OILS OF SELECTED PLANTS ON CLINICAL ISOLATES OF CANDIDA SPECIES GROWTH, TRANSITION AND BIOFILM FORMATION | ||
| Bulletin of Pharmaceutical Sciences Assiut University | ||
| Volume 46, Issue 2, December 2023, Pages 1209-1232 PDF (2.21 M) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/bfsa.2023.327651 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Alaa G Amen* 1; Ehsan AB Hassan2; Sherein G Elgendy2; Soad AL Bayoumi3; Muhamad R Abdel Hameed4; Eman A Abd-Alrahman5 | ||
| 1Al-Rajhy Hospital, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt | ||
| 2Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt | ||
| 3Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt | ||
| 4Department of Internal Medicine & Hematology Unit, Assiut University Hospitals Assiut, Egypt | ||
| 5Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine for Girls, Al-Azhar University, Assiut, Egypt | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Candida species are one of common opportunistic pathogens in humans. Detection of antifungal resistance between candida species become increasing, a great interest in creating new antifungals utilizing natural sources like plant essential oils (EOs) . This study aimed to evaluate the effect of EOs of selected plants on Candida species growth, transition, and biofilm formation as well on the expression levels of certain virulence genes. Patients and methods: Fifty candida isolates were collected from napkin dermatitis and oral candidiasis patients, different Candida species were identified phenotypically. Essential oils for some medicinal plants (basil, clove, garlic, and peppermint) were extracted by hydro-distillation. Their antifungal activity was assessed by minimal inhibitory concentration methods. In addition the effect of EOs on different Candida ultrastructure was detected by scanning electron microscope, the antibiofilm characteristics were examined by microtiter plate method. The ability of tested EOs to interfere with transition of candida from blastopore to hyphae form was evaluated. The effect of basil and clove oils on various virulent genes was determined by analyzing the expression levels of HWP, ALS3, SAP3 genes by RT-PCR. Results: C. albicans was the most prevalent species. For all tested Candida isolates, the EOs displayed a high antifungal activity. The EOs decreased the Candida transition, disrupted the Candida ultrastructure and suppressed their ability of biofilm formation, clove oil exposure significantly downregulated the expression of HWP1, ALS3 and SAP3 genes, in addition basil oil downregulated the expression of ALS3 and SAP3.Conclusion: This study concluded that clove oil is the best essential oil among other EOs that inhibited growth, transition and biofilm formation by lowest MIC and downregulated HWP1, AlS3 and SAP3 genes, which suggest their potential application for its use as antifungal therapy. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Essential oil; C. albicans; Biofilm; HWP1; ALS3; SAP3 genes | ||
|
Statistics Article View: 267 PDF Download: 306 |
||
