Fungos patogênicos e a desmistificação do controle com o extrato de própolis em vinho branco.

Abstract

Propolis is a resinous material collected by bees from various parts of plants, such as leaves, buds, and is used to embalm animals that have died inside the hive, seal the walls and provide protection against disease. The use of this natural product for medicinal purposes goes back to antiquity, with evidence of its use with ancient civilizations, such as the Greek, Roman and Egyptian, and it remains today with therapeutic, medical and veterinary purposes. The aim of this study was to examine the in vitro cytotoxicity of the propolis extract in white wine against specific genera of fungi, demystifying the antifungal activity strains. Samples of propolis produced by Apis melífera bees were used, arriving in the fresh form, being crushed and mixed with white wine, having as a final product the propolis extract, to later present the desired concentrations for research, these being 0.5%, 1.0% and 2.0%. Then, used as an antifungal treatment against microsporum gypseum, aspergillus niger, trichophyton mentagrophytes, and finally, madurella mycetomatis. In general, red propolis extracts from the city of Baía da Traição, a municipality in the state of Paraíba, in the Northeast region of Brazil, do not have antifungal potential against species of the genus in concentrations of (0.5%, 1.0% and 2.0%), using white wine to build its extract. The results show a low cytotoxic effect on the strains studied.