UDC 619: 576.807.9
DOI: 10.36871/vet.zoo.bio.202306011
Authors
Ifarajimi R. Olabode,
Nadezhda P. Sachivkina,
Vladimir I. Kuznetsov,
Valentina I. Semenova,
Federal State Autonomous Educational Institution of Higher Education
Peoples Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University),
Moscow, Russia
Ekaterina V. Kiseleva,
Pskov State University, Pskov, Russia
Abstract
There are many reports that microorganisms are becoming resistant to chemotherapy drugs in both veterinary and human medicine. And this problem of increasing resistance of microorganisms to antibiotics is of great social and economic importance. Scientific data indicate that resistance arises due to the selective effect of antimicrobial drugs on various structures of the microbial cell, as well as the ability of microorganisms to move into forms that are more protected from external influences – biofilms. Of particular interest is the question: Is there a link between the ability to form biofilms and resistance? For some microorganisms this correlation has already been proved. In this work, we have proved that there is a statistically significant relationship between the optical density of biofilms of yeast-like fungi Malassezia pachydermatis and their sensitivity to drugs.
Keywords
dogs, Malassezia pachydermatis, yeast-like fungi, biofilms, antimycotics
