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  • Decrease in adherence of bacteria and yeasts to human mucosal epithelial cells by noxythiolin in vitro.

Decrease in adherence of bacteria and yeasts to human mucosal epithelial cells by noxythiolin in vitro.

The Journal of applied bacteriology (1986-04-01)
S P Gorman, D F McCafferty, A D Woolfson, L Anderson
ABSTRACT

Adherence of buccal and vaginal isolates of Candida albicans to buccal epithelial cells and the adherence of urine isolates of Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus saprophyticus to uroepithelial cells was quantified by light microscopy. The antimicrobial agent noxythiolin reduced the adherence of these micro-organisms in both exponential and stationary growth phases. Adherence of both the blastospore and pseudohyphal forms of C. albicans was reduced. Treatment of epithelial cells and/or micro-organisms with noxythiolin resulted in decreased adherence. No anti-adherence effect was observed with formaldehyde and N-methylthiourea, the degradative products of noxythiolin.

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N-Methylthiourea, 97%