Liquid and vapour-phase antifungal activities of essential oils against Candida albicans and non-albicans Candida.
Narcisa MandrasAntonia NostroJanira RoanaDaniela ScalasGiuliana BancheValeria GhisettiSimonetta Del ReGiacomo FucaleAnna Maria CuffiniVivian TullioPublished in: BMC complementary and alternative medicine (2016)
Results show a good activity of essential oils, mainly thymus red and pine oils, and their components carvacrol, thymol and α-pinene against Candida spp., including fluconazole/voriconazole resistant strains. These data encourage adequately controlled and randomized clinical investigations. The use in vapour phase could have additional advantages without requiring direct contact, resulting in easy of environmental application such as in hospital, and/or in school.
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