New trends in antifungal treatment: What is coming up?

Rev Esp Quimioter. 2023 Nov;36 Suppl 1:59-63. doi: 10.37201/req/s01.14.2023. Epub 2023 Nov 24.ABSTRACTNew antifungal agents are needed to overcome limitations of available ones such as poor pharmacokinetic traits, toxicity, drug-drug interactions, limited clinical efficacy, and emerging antifungal resistance. New antifungal drugs belong to well-known families (azoles, polyenes, or beta-d-glucan synthase inhibitors) or to drug families showing completely new mechanisms of action. Some drugs have a head start in terms of potential to reach the clinical setting and are here reviewed.PMID:37997874 | DOI:10.37201/req/s01.14.2023
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