Abstract
Fungi—in being responsible for causing diseases in animals and humans as well as environmental contaminations in health and storage facilities—represent a serious concern to health security. Surfactants are a group of chemical compounds used in a broad spectrum of applications. The recently considered potential employment of cationic surfactants as antifungal or fungistatic agents has become a prominent issue in the development of antifungal strategies, especially if such surface-active agents can be synthesized in an eco-friendly manner. In this review, we describe the antifungal effect and the reported mechanisms of action of several types of cationic surfactants and also include a discussion of the contribution of these surfactants to the inhibition of yeast-based-biofilm formation. Furthermore, the putative mechanism of arginine-based tensioactive compounds as antifungal agents and their applications are also analyzed.
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MEF was awarded a CONICET fellowship. SRM, MCNS, and GLG are members of CONICET. LB is member of the CICPBA as a career investigator. Dr. Donald F. Haggerty, a retired academic career investigator and native English speaker, edited the final version of the manuscript.
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This study was funded by MINCyT (PICT 2013-2531 and PICT 2015-1620), CAPES-MINCyT (017/2014), and UNLP (X11-682).
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Fait, M.E., Bakas, L., Garrote, G.L. et al. Cationic surfactants as antifungal agents. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 103, 97–112 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00253-018-9467-6
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