Sloth hair as a novel source of fungi with potent anti-parasitic, anti-cancer and anti-bacterial bioactivity

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Higginbotham, Sarah ^a   Wong, Weng Ruh ^b   Linington, Roger G ^b   Spadafora, Carmenza ^c   Iturrado, Liliana ^a   Arnold, A Elizabeth ^d  

^a SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Instituto de Investigaciones Científicas Servicios de Alta Tecnología   (Panama)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL EXTRACT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; ANTIPARASITIC AGENT;

ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ANTIPARASITIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BRADYPUS VARIEGATUS; CHAGAS DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTIVATED LAND; DRUG ACTIVITY; FOREST; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HAIR; IN VITRO STUDY; MALARIA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PANAMA; PHYLOGENY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; SLOTH; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; ANTIPARASITIC AGENTS; FUNGI; HAIR; SLOTHS;

EID: 84898623240     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0084549     Document Type: Article

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