Candidiasis and Mechanisms of Antifungal Resistance

S Bhattacharya, S Sae-Tia, BC Fries - Antibiotics, 2020 - mdpi.com
Candidiasis can be present as a cutaneous, mucosal or deep-seated organ infection, which
is caused by more than 20 types of Candida sp., with C. albicans being the most common …

Novel agents and drug targets to meet the challenges of resistant fungi

MW McCarthy, DP Kontoyiannis… - The Journal of …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
The emergence of drug-resistant fungi poses a major threat to human health. Despite
advances in preventive, diagnostic, and therapeutic interventions, resistant fungal infections …

Fitness penalties in the evolution of fungicide resistance

NJ Hawkins, BA Fraaije - Annual review of phytopathology, 2018 - annualreviews.org
The evolution of resistance poses an ongoing threat to crop protection. Fungicide resistance
provides a selective advantage under fungicide selection, but resistance-conferring …

Candida albicans triggers NLRP3-mediated pyroptosis in macrophages

M Wellington, K Koselny, FS Sutterwala… - Eukaryotic cell, 2014 - Am Soc Microbiol
Pyroptosis is an inflammasome-mediated programmed cell death pathway triggered in
macrophages by a variety of stimuli, including intracellular bacterial pathogens. Activation of …

First report of candidemia clonal outbreak caused by emerging fluconazole-resistant Candida parapsilosis isolates harboring Y132F and/or Y132F+ K143R in Turkey

A Arastehfar, F Daneshnia… - Antimicrobial agents …, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
Clonal outbreaks of fluconazole-resistant (FLZR) Candida parapsilosis isolates have been
reported in several countries. Despite its being the second leading cause of candidemia, the …

Fungal Lanosterol 14α-demethylase: A target for next-generation antifungal design

BC Monk, AA Sagatova, P Hosseini, YN Ruma… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2020 - Elsevier
The cytochrome P450 enzyme lanosterol 14α-demethylase (LDM) is the target of the azole
antifungals used widely in medicine and agriculture as prophylaxis or treatments of …

Flavones, Flavonols, and Glycosylated Derivatives—Impact on Candida albicans Growth and Virulence, Expression of CDR1 and ERG11, Cytotoxicity

M Ivanov, A Kannan, DS Stojković, J Glamočlija… - Pharmaceuticals, 2020 - mdpi.com
Due to the high incidence of fungal infections worldwide, there is an increasing demand for
the development of novel therapeutic approaches. A wide range of natural products has …

Camphor and eucalyptol—Anticandidal spectrum, antivirulence effect, efflux pumps interference and cytotoxicity

M Ivanov, A Kannan, DS Stojković, J Glamočlija… - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Candida albicans represents one of the most common fungal pathogens. Due to its
increasing incidence and the poor efficacy of available antifungals, finding novel antifungal …

The development of fluconazole resistance in Candida albicans – an example of microevolution of a fungal pathogen

J Morschhäuser - Journal of microbiology, 2016 - Springer
The yeast Candida albicans is a member of the microbiota in the gastrointestinal and
urogenital tracts of most healthy persons, but it can also cause symptomatic infections …

Multidrug resistance in fungi: regulation of transporter-encoding gene expression

S Paul, WS Moye-Rowley - Frontiers in physiology, 2014 - frontiersin.org
A critical risk to the continued success of antifungal chemotherapy is the acquisition of
resistance; a risk exacerbated by the few classes of effective antifungal drugs. Predictably …