Antifungal activity of immunosuppressants used alone or in combination with fluconazole
| العنوان: | Antifungal activity of immunosuppressants used alone or in combination with fluconazole |
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| المؤلفون: | D. Wang, Xue Yang, Shujuan Sun, Cuixiang Yu, Maojun Zhang |
| المصدر: | Journal of Applied Microbiology. 126:1304-1317 |
| بيانات النشر: | Oxford University Press (OUP), 2018. |
| سنة النشر: | 2018 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Antifungal, 0303 health sciences, Antifungal Agents, biology, 030306 microbiology, medicine.drug_class, business.industry, General Medicine, Drug resistance, Pharmacology, biology.organism_classification, Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, Clinical Practice, Calcineurin, 03 medical and health sciences, medicine, Candida albicans, business, Fluconazole, Immunosuppressive Agents, 030304 developmental biology, Biotechnology, medicine.drug |
| الوصف: | Fungal infections remain a challenge to clinicians due to the limited available antifungals. With the increasing use of antifungals in clinical practice, drug resistance has been emerging continuously, especially to fluconazole (FLC). Thus, a search for new antifungals and approaches to overcome antifungal resistance is needed. However, the development of new antifungals is usually costly and time consuming; discovering the antifungal activity of non-antifungal agents is one way to address these problems. Interestingly, some researchers have demonstrated that several classes of immunosuppressants (calcineurin inhibitors, glucocorticoids, etc) also displayed potent antifungal activity when used alone or in combination with antifungals, especially with FLC. Some of them could increase FLC's susceptibility against resistant Candida albicans significantly reversing fungal resistance to FLC. This article reviews the antifungal activities of immunosuppressants used alone or in combination with antifungals and their potential antifungal mechanisms that have been discovered so far. Although immunosuppressive agents have been identified as risk factors for fungal infection, we believe these findings are very important for overcoming drug resistance and developing new antifungals. |
| تدمد: | 1365-2672 1364-5072 |
| الوصول الحر: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::bcddbc664c525cac9b10bc285d1fe255Test https://doi.org/10.1111/jam.14126Test |
| حقوق: | OPEN |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsair.doi.dedup.....bcddbc664c525cac9b10bc285d1fe255 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 13652672 13645072 |
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