Aktywność enzymatyczna szczepów grzybów wyizolowanych ze skóry i jej przydatków od osób powracajacych z tropiku

The aim of the work was to assess the enzymatic activity of 11 fungi strains isolated from the skin of 10 Łódź residents who had visited the tropics over 1998-1999. The strains were cultured by Jeske and Lupa of The Voivodeship Outpatient Clinie of Infectious, Parasitic and Tropical Diseases and Fungal Infections in Łódź. They were as follows: Trichophyton rubrum and Acremonium kiliense from Zambia, Myriodontium keratinophilum, Beauveria bassiana, Cladosporium herbarum, Candida famata and Trichophyton yaoundei from Sudan, Trichophyton tonsurans from Ethiopia, Trichophyton phaseliforme from Egypt, Acremonium strictum from Zimbabwe and Microsporum racemosus from Tanzania. The enzymatic activity was determined with the use of API ZYM of bioMerieux enabling 19 hydrolases to be revealed. In general, all tropical strains were characterised by a weak hydrolytic activity.