title: Candida dubliniensis does not show phospholipase activity: true or false?
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The phospholipase activity in Candida albicans and Candida dubliniensis isolated from oral candidiasis cases were studied.
  
  
  METHODS
  The phospholipase activity was evaluated in egg yolk agar.
  
  
  RESULTS
  All the C. albicans isolates (n = 48) showed phospholipase activity (mean Pz = 0.66). However, none of the C. dubliniensis isolates (n = 24) showed this activity.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The authors discuss whether these findings are a true characteristic of C. dubliniensis or a consequence of the methodology employed, which includes the possibility that NaCl may have inhibited the enzymatic activity of C. dubliniensis.
authors.affiliation: Pharmaceutical Sciences Post-Graduate Program, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Santa Maria, RS.
authors.forename: Liliane Alves
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Scheid
authors.forename: Débora Alves Nunes
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Mario
authors.forename: Paulo Guilherme Markus
authors.initials: PG
authors.lastname: Lopes
authors.forename: Erico de
authors.initials: Ed
authors.lastname: Loreto
authors.forename: Carlos Eduardo Blanco
authors.initials: CE
authors.lastname: Linares
authors.forename: Janio Morais
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Santurio
authors.forename: Sydney Hartz
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Alves
mesh_terms: D002175:Candida / Q000201:enzymology* / Q000472:pathogenicity; D002176:Candida albicans / Q000201:enzymology / Q000472:pathogenicity; D002180:Candidiasis, Oral / Q000382:microbiology*; D006801:Humans; D010740:Phospholipases / Q000032:analysis / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D010740:Phospholipases