African Journal of Biotechnology Vol. 6 (15), pp. 1788-1790, 6 August 2007   

ISSN 1684–5315 © 2007 Academic Journals        

Short Communication

Antibiotic like-substances produced by some trichophytic dermatophytes

Hammadi, D. K.*, Selselet, G. A.¹, S. A. Bensoultane²

¹Laboratoire de microbiologie, Département de Biologie, Faculté des sciences, Université de Mostaganem, BP 227 Mostaganem  (w-27000) Algeria.

²Laboratoire de microbiologie, Département de Biologie, Faculté des sciences, Université d'Oran –Es-Senia-Oran- (w-31000), Algeria.

*Corresponding author. E-mail: kyrabiology@yahoo.fr.

Accepted 7 June, 2007

Antibiotic production by dermatophytic fungi was demonstrated. Among 10 anthropophilic dermato-phytes strains tested for their ability to produce antibiotics, four were found  to be producers. The out-come for a qualitative identification of the produced antibiotics  reveals four types ; a penicillin-like sub-stance produced by Trichophyton gourvillii, and two different types of unknown substances obtained from two strains of Trichophyton  mentagrophytes  var.  interdigitales  and the kojic acid-like antibiotic substance produced by Trichophyton verruccosum.

Key words: Dermatophytes, antibiotics, bioassay.