New antifungal agents with azole moieties

MM Teixeira, DT Carvalho, E Sousa, E Pinto - Pharmaceuticals, 2022 - mdpi.com
Fungal conditions affect a multitude of people worldwide, leading to increased
hospitalization and mortality rates, and the need for novel antifungals is emerging with the …

Current status and structure activity relationship of privileged azoles as antifungal agents (2016–2020)

A Ahmadi, E Mohammadnejadi, P Karami… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Fungal infections have greatly contributed to infectious-related deaths in the past century.
This issue has become worse with the advent of immunity-impairing conditions such as HIV …

History of the development of antifungal azoles: A review on structures, SAR, and mechanism of action

M Shafiei, L Peyton, M Hashemzadeh, A Foroumadi - Bioorganic chemistry, 2020 - Elsevier
With the increasing risk of invasive and life threating fungal infections, there is now a great
concern regarding the lower discovery rate of antifungal drugs in comparison to …

Novel triazoles with potent and broad-spectrum antifungal activity in vitro and in vivo

P Zhu, T Zhou, H Chen, X Chen, X Wang… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Triazoles have demonstrated significant efficacy in the treatment of fungal infections.
However, increasing drug resistance is a growing concern that negatively impacts their …

Triazole derivatives as potential antifungal agents: A structure-activity relationship (SAR) studies

Y Hu, Z Liu, G Zha, S Long, MB Sridhara… - Process …, 2023 - Elsevier
Today's research is focused on developing new safe drugs of clinical importance. Nitrogen-
containing heterocycles are abundant in the common of therapeutic scaffolds. Triazoles are …

Sources of antifungal drugs

G Vanreppelen, J Wuyts, P Van Dijck, P Vandecruys - Journal of Fungi, 2023 - mdpi.com
Due to their eukaryotic heritage, the differences between a fungal pathogen's molecular
makeup and its human host are small. Therefore, the discovery and subsequent …

Avenues for antifungal drug discovery and development: where to now?

S Vassilopoulos, E Mylonakis - Expert Opinion on Drug Discovery, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
An increasing clinical burden of fungal disease is associated with chronic (eg chronic
pulmonary aspergillosis), systemic (eg candidemia and cryptococcal meningoencephalitis) …

Novel antifungal triazoles with alkynyl-methoxyl side chains: Design, synthesis, and biological activity evaluation

F Xie, Y Hao, L Li, R Wang, J Bao, X Chi… - European Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Previous work led to the rational design, synthesis and testing of novel antifungal triazole
analogues bearing alkynyl-methoxyl side chains. Tests of in vitro antifungal activity showed …

The future of antifungal drug therapy: novel compounds and targets

C Mota Fernandes, D Dasilva… - Antimicrobial agents …, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
Fungal infections are a universal problem and are routinely associated with high morbidity
and mortality rates in immunocompromised patients. Existing therapies comprise five …

Novel antifungal agents: a patent review (2013-present)

M Victoria Castelli, M Gabriel Derita… - Expert Opinion on …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: Superficial infections involving the skin and mucosa are the most common
fungal disease in humans. Fungi can also produce invasive infections (IFI), which are …