Antimicrobial agents derived from cream
AssigneeUniversite de Montreal
InventorsMichel Lange, Martin Clement, Jessy Tremblay, Jacques Thibodeau, Pierre Belhumeur, Julie Shareck
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Abstract
Methods for interfering with the growth of fungi by exposing the fungi to an antimicrobial agent derived from cream, and more particularly, to methods for treating human fungal pathogens such as Candida albicans and Aspergillus fumigatus, through exposing the fungi to free fatty acids with antimicrobial activity derived from cream.
Claims88
A method for interfering with the hyphal growth of fungi comprising exposing the fungi to an antimicrobial agent derived from cream, wherein the antimicrobial agent is at a concentration sufficient to interfere with the hypal growth of fungi without preventing multiplication of the fungi.
The method according to claim 15, wherein the whey cream is goat whey cream.
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A method for inhibiting the growth of microbes comprising exposing the microbes to an antimicrobial agent derived from cream, wherein the antimicrobial agent is at a concentration sufficient to inhibit the growth of the microbes.
A pharmaceutical composition comprising a free fatty acid in a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.