[Study of the cerbiden spectrum of antifungal activity against fungi pathogenic to humans]. / Vyvchennia spektra antyfunhal'noï diï tserbidenu na umovno patohenni dlia liudyny gryby.

A comparatively wide spectrum of cerbiden antifungal activity against the fungi pathogenic for human has been determined. Cerbiden is active against clinical and museum strains of Candida spp. and other yeasts; Trichophyton spp., Microsporum spp. of Dermatophytaceae family, museum strains of some species from Mucor, Rhizopus, Rhizomucor genera of Mucoraceae family; and it is not active with respect to studied fungi of Aspergillus and Penicillium genera of Moniliaceae family.

[Investigation of the activity of the preparation cerbiden against Candida spp]. / Doslidzhennia aktyvnosti preparatu tserbidenu shchodo Candida spp.

Antifungal activity of a new complex antibiotical preparation cerbiden obtained from medical plant Bidens cernua L. of the Asteraceae family, was investigated in vitro against the clinical and museum strains of Candida spp. High cerbiden activity against clinical and museum strains of Candida albicans, C. tropicalis, C. krusei, C. parapsilosis, C. guilliermondii, sensitive and resistant to nystatin, amphotericin B and clotrimazole was determined.