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Triphenylmethane dye which today has no longer any significant therapeutic significance. Malachite green is, like the pharmacologically related dyes brilliant green, gentian violet, methyl violet (pyoctanine), in vitro fungicidally effective against clinically relevant dermatophytes and yeasts. Malachite green and brilliant green have the strongest antimytic activity.
Prof. Dr. med. Peter Altmeyer