Novel Antifungal Compounds Discovered in Medicines for Malaria Venture’s Malaria Box

ABSTRACT Similarities in fungal and animal cells make antifungal discovery efforts more difficult than those for other classes of antimicrobial drugs. Currently, there are only three major classes of antifungal drugs used for the treatment of systemic fungal diseases: polyenes, azoles, and echinocan...

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Main Authors: Eric H. Jung, David J. Meyers, Jürgen Bosch, Arturo Casadevall
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2018-04-01
Series:mSphere
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Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mSphere.00537-17