[Effect of heavy metal ions on the soil mycobiota in Kryvyi Rih region].

Ecological-taxonomic analysis of mycobiota from heavy metal polluted soils in Kryvyi Rig town and its residential suburbs are presented in this study The mycobiota consists of45 filamentous species (127 strains) belonging to 28 genera from 3 divisions. Among them Myrothecium leucotrichum was described as a new species for Ukrainian mycobiota while Absidia cylindrospora and Gongronella butleri as rare species. Paecilomyces lilacinus and P. marquandii dominated in the soils near the factory Kryvorizhstal and South Ore Mining and Processing Enterprises. In these soils, Mycelia sterilia (white and dark) and dark-colored micromycetes occurred with a high frequency (up to 30%). Results obtained allow us to conlude that ecological conditions in Kryvyi Rig town are unfavourable.

[Study of the cerbiden spectrum of antifungal activity against fungi pathogenic to humans]. / Vyvchennia spektra antyfunhal'noï diï tserbidenu na umovno patohenni dlia liudyny gryby.

A comparatively wide spectrum of cerbiden antifungal activity against the fungi pathogenic for human has been determined. Cerbiden is active against clinical and museum strains of Candida spp. and other yeasts; Trichophyton spp., Microsporum spp. of Dermatophytaceae family, museum strains of some species from Mucor, Rhizopus, Rhizomucor genera of Mucoraceae family; and it is not active with respect to studied fungi of Aspergillus and Penicillium genera of Moniliaceae family.