Seyedmousavi Seyedmojtaba, Rafati Haleh, Ilkit Macit, Tolooe Ali, Hedayati Mohammad T, Verweij Paul
Department of Medical Microbiology, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Invasive Fungi Research Center (IFRC) & Department of Medical Mycology and Parasitology, School of Medicine, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran.
Methods Mol Biol. 2017;1508:107-139. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4939-6515-1_5.
By definition, an antifungal agent is a drug that selectively destroys fungal pathogens with minimal side effects to the host. Despite an increase in the prevalence of fungal infections particularly in immunocompromised patients, only a few classes of antifungal drugs are available for therapy, and they exhibit limited efficacy in the treatment of life-threatening infections. These drugs include polyenes, azoles, echinocandins, and nucleoside analogs. This chapter focuses on the currently available classes and representatives of systemic antifungal drugs in clinical use. We further discuss the unmet clinical needs in the antifungal research field; efforts in reformulation of available drugs such as Amphotericin B nanoparticles for oral drug delivery; development of new agents of known antifungal drug classes, such as albaconazole, SCY-078, and biafungin; and new drugs with novel targets for treatment of invasive fungal infections, including nikkomycin Z, sordarin derivatives, VT-1161 and VT-1129, F901318, VL-2397, and T-2307.
根据定义,抗真菌剂是一种能选择性地破坏真菌病原体且对宿主副作用最小的药物。尽管真菌感染的患病率有所上升,尤其是在免疫功能低下的患者中,但可用于治疗的抗真菌药物类别较少,并且它们在治疗危及生命的感染方面疗效有限。这些药物包括多烯类、唑类、棘白菌素类和核苷类似物。本章重点介绍目前临床使用的全身用抗真菌药物的类别和代表药物。我们还将进一步讨论抗真菌研究领域尚未满足的临床需求;现有药物如两性霉素B纳米颗粒用于口服给药的重新配方研究;已知抗真菌药物类别新制剂的开发,如阿巴康唑、SCY - 078和比阿芬净;以及用于治疗侵袭性真菌感染的具有新靶点的新药,包括多氧霉素Z、索拉菌素衍生物、VT - 1161和VT - 1129、F901318、VL - 2397和T - 2307。
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