Multidrug-Resistant Candida: Epidemiology, Molecular Mechanisms, and Treatment

MC Arendrup, TF Patterson - The Journal of infectious diseases, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Invasive Candida infections remain an important cause of morbidity and mortality, especially
in hospitalized and immunocompromised or critically ill patients. A limited number of …

Antifungal resistance: current trends and future strategies to combat

NP Wiederhold - Infection and drug resistance, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Antifungal resistance represents a major clinical challenge to clinicians responsible for
treating invasive fungal infections due to the limited arsenal of systemically available …

Invasive candidiasis

C Lass-Flörl, SS Kanj, NP Govender… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Invasive candidiasis is an important fungal disease caused by Candida albicans and,
increasingly, non-albicans Candida pathogens. Invasive Candida infections originate most …

Increasing Echinocandin Resistance in Candida glabrata: Clinical Failure Correlates With Presence of FKS Mutations and Elevated Minimum Inhibitory …

BD Alexander, MD Johnson, CD Pfeiffer… - Clinical infectious …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Background. Fluconazole (FLC) resistance is common in C. glabrata and echinocandins are
often used as first-line therapy. Resistance to echinocandin therapy has been associated …

Echinocandin Resistance in Candida

DS Perlin - Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Invasive fungal infections are an important infection concern for patients with underlying
immunosuppression. Antifungal therapy is a critical component of patient care, but …

[HTML][HTML] The quiet and underappreciated rise of drug-resistant invasive fungal pathogens

A Arastehfar, C Lass-Flörl, R Garcia-Rubio… - Journal of Fungi, 2020 - mdpi.com
Human fungal pathogens are attributable to a significant economic burden and mortality
worldwide. Antifungal treatments, although limited in number, play a pivotal role in …

Mechanisms of echinocandin antifungal drug resistance

DS Perlin - Annals of the new York Academy of Sciences, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Fungal infections due to Candida and Aspergillus species cause extensive morbidity and
mortality, especially among immunosuppressed patients, and antifungal therapy is critical to …

Candida glabrata: a review of its features and resistance

CF Rodrigues, S Silva, M Henriques - European journal of clinical …, 2014 - Springer
Candida species belong to the normal microbiota of the oral cavity and gastrointestinal and
vaginal tracts, and are responsible for several clinical manifestations, from mucocutaneous …

Frequency of decreased susceptibility and resistance to echinocandins among fluconazole-resistant bloodstream isolates of Candida glabrata

MA Pfaller, M Castanheira, SR Lockhart… - Journal of clinical …, 2012 - Am Soc Microbiol
The echinocandin class of antifungal agents is considered to be the first-line treatment of
bloodstream infections (BSI) due to Candida glabrata. Recent reports of BSI due to strains of …

[HTML][HTML] Current antifungal drugs and immunotherapeutic approaches as promising strategies to treatment of fungal diseases

S Nami, A Aghebati-Maleki, H Morovati… - Biomedicine & …, 2019 - Elsevier
Invasive candidiasis (IC) can affect individuals with various underlying diseases hospitalized
in different parts of hospitals. In recent decades, IC has caused 27–55% mortality in general …