Candida dubliniensis does not show phospholipase activity: true or false?
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.
Scheid
Liliane Alves
LA
Pharmaceutical Sciences Post-Graduate Program, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Santa Maria, RS.
Mario
Débora Alves Nunes
DA
Lopes
Paulo Guilherme Markus
PG
Loreto
Erico de
Ed
Linares
Carlos Eduardo Blanco
CE
Santurio
Janio Morais
JM
Alves
Sydney Hartz
SH
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*
D010740:Phospholipases