Echinocandins: the expanding antifungal armamentarium

D Aguilar-Zapata, R Petraitiene… - Clinical Infectious …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
The echinocandins are large lipopeptide molecules that, since their discovery approximately
41 years ago, have emerged as important additions to the expanding armamentarium …

Invasive aspergillosis: epidemiology, clinical aspects, and treatment

KS Gregg, CA Kauffman - Seminars in respiratory and critical …, 2015 - thieme-connect.com
Invasive aspergillosis remains an often fatal, difficult-to treat infection in
immunocompromised patients. Patients not classically defined as immunocompromised …

Combination antifungal therapy for invasive aspergillosis: a randomized trial

KA Marr, HT Schlamm, R Herbrecht… - Annals of internal …, 2015 - acpjournals.org
This article has been corrected. The original version (PDF) is appended to this article as a
Supplement. Background: Invasive aspergillosis (IA) is associated with poor outcomes in …

Clinical experience of the use of voriconazole, caspofungin or the combination in primary and salvage therapy of invasive aspergillosis in haematological …

II Raad, A El Zakhem, G El Helou, Y Jiang… - International journal of …, 2015 - Elsevier
Invasive aspergillosis (IA) is a life-threatening infection in severely immunocompromised
haematological malignancy patients. In this study, the efficacy and safety of caspofungin …

What's new in antifungals: an update on the in-vitro activity and in-vivo efficacy of new and investigational antifungal agents

NP Wiederhold, TF Patterson - Current opinion in infectious …, 2015 - journals.lww.com
Several new antifungal agents are currently in various stages of development. This is
promising, as there is a continued need for new agents to treat invasive fungal infections …

Treatment of drug-resistant Aspergillus infection

M Aigner, C Lass-Flörl - Expert Opinion on Pharmacotherapy, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Triazole antifungals are frontline drugs for the treatment and prophylaxis of infections due to
Aspergillus species. Azole resistance is an emerging problem and is associated with …

Combination antifungal therapy for invasive mould diseases in haematologic patients. An update on clinical data

A Candoni, F Aversa, A Busca, S Cesaro… - Journal of …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Invasive mould diseases (IMDs) are often encountered in haematologic patients who
undergo chemotherapy or who require allogeneic haematopoietic stem cell transplantation …

Current and future therapies for invasive aspergillosis

M Bassetti, D Pecori, P Della Siega, S Corcione… - Pulmonary …, 2015 - Elsevier
Invasive fungal infections have increase worldwide and represent a threat for
immunocompromised patients including HIV-infected, recipients of solid organ and stem cell …

Overview of fungal infections-the Italian experience

M Bassetti, E Righi - Seminars in respiratory and critical care …, 2015 - thieme-connect.com
The incidence of severe fungal infections has increased worldwide and represents a serious
threat, especially among immunocompromised and critically ill patients. Most common …

Efficacy of the investigational echinocandin ASP9726 in a guinea pig model of invasive pulmonary aspergillosis

NP Wiederhold, LK Najvar, S Matsumoto… - Antimicrobial agents …, 2015 - Am Soc Microbiol
ABSTRACT ASP9726 is an investigational echinocandin with in vitro activity against
Aspergillus species. We evaluated the pharmacokinetics and efficacy of this agent in an …