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Taylor and Francis Group, Virulence, 4(6), p. 362-371, 2015

DOI: 10.1080/21505594.2015.1039885

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Synergistic combinations of antifungals and anti-virulence agents to fight againstCandida albicans

Journal article published in 2015 by Jinhui Cui, Biao Ren, Yaojun Tong ORCID, Huanqin Dai, Lixin Zhang
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
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Abstract

Candida albicans, one of the pathogenic Candida species, causes high mortality rate in immunocompromised and high-risk surgical patients. In the last decade, only one new class of antifungal drug echinocandin was applied. The increased therapy failures, such as the one caused by multi-drug resistance, demand innovative strategies for new effective antifungal drugs. Synergistic combinations of antifungals and anti-virulence agents highlight the pragmatic strategy to reduce the development of drug resistant and potentially repurpose known antifungals, which bypass the costly and time-consuming pipeline of new drug development. Anti-virulence and synergistic combination provide new options for antifungal drug discovery by counteracting the difficulty or failure of traditional therapy for fungal infections.