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The antibiotic activity of the antifungal substance mucidin was compared with the activity of nystatin and pimaricin. The antibiotics were tested by the plate method using 19 fungal species, mainly phytopathogenic ones. Toward 14 species, mucidin was ten times more active than nystatin and pimaricin, toward 5 species the activities were roughly the same. The antibiotics differed also in the sharpness of the inhibition zone boundaries.
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Šašek, V., Musílek, V. Effects of the new antifungal antibiotic mucidin. Folia Microbiol 19, 139–141 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02872847
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02872847