Antifungal Agents

"Antifungal Agents" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Substances that destroy fungi by suppressing their ability to grow or reproduce. They differ from FUNGICIDES, INDUSTRIAL because they defend against fungi present in human or animal tissues.

Descriptor ID	D000935
MeSH Number(s)	D27.505.954.122.136
Concept/Terms	Antifungal Agents Antifungal Agents Agents, Antifungal Therapeutic Fungicides Fungicides, Therapeutic Antibiotics, Antifungal Antibiotics, Antifungal Antifungal Antibiotics

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Antifungal Agents".

Chemicals and Drugs [D]
Chemical Actions and Uses [D27]
Pharmacologic Actions [D27.505]
Therapeutic Uses [D27.505.954]
Anti-Infective Agents [D27.505.954.122]
Antifungal Agents [D27.505.954.122.136]

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Bar chart showing 145 publications over 27 distinct years, with a maximum of 16 publications in 2002

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
1998	2	1	3
1999	4	1	5
2000	1	1	2
2001	4	2	6
2002	11	5	16
2003	6	0	6
2004	3	1	4
2005	2	1	3
2006	3	2	5
2007	3	1	4
2008	1	1	2
2009	4	2	6
2010	6	1	7
2011	7	4	11
2012	3	1	4
2013	11	0	11
2014	3	0	3
2015	3	2	5
2016	7	1	8
2017	3	2	5
2018	5	2	7
2019	4	2	6
2020	2	2	4
2022	0	2	2
2023	3	3	6
2024	1	1	2
2025	1	1	2

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Saeger S, West-Jeppson K, Liao Y-R, Campuzano A, Yu J-J, Lopez-Ribot J, Hung C-Y. Discovery of novel antifungal drugs via screening repurposing libraries against Coccidioides posadasii spherule initials. mBio. 2025 May 14; 16(5):e0020525.

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Ramage G, Kean R, Rautemaa-Richardson R, Williams C, Lopez-Ribot JL. Fungal biofilms in human health and disease. Nat Rev Microbiol. 2025 Jun; 23(6):355-370.

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Bhalodiya SS, Parmar MP, Patel CD, Patel SG, Vala DP, Suresh N, Jayachandran B, Kumar Arumugam M, Narayan M, Patel HM. Acetic Acid-Driven One-Pot Synthesis of 4,7-dihydro-[1,2,3]thiadiazolo[5,4-b]pyridine-6-carboxamides and Pharmacological Evaluations. ChemMedChem. 2025 Jan 14; 20(2):e202400595.

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Borchardt-Setter KA, Yu J, Stelzer T, Yu L. Surface Enrichment and Depletion of Components in a Ternary Drug-Surfactant-Polymer Amorphous Solid Dispersion. Mol Pharm. 2024 Aug 05; 21(8):4074-4081.

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Ajetunmobi OH, Chaturvedi AK, Badali H, Vaccaro A, Najvar L, Wormley FL, Wiederhold NP, Patterson TF, Lopez-Ribot JL. Screening the medicine for malaria venture's Pandemic Response Box to identify novel inhibitors of Candida albicans and Candida auris biofilm formation. APMIS. 2023 Nov; 131(11):613-625.

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Ramage G, Borghi E, Rodrigues CF, Kean R, Williams C, Lopez-Ribot J. Our current clinical understanding of Candida biofilms: where are we two decades on? APMIS. 2023 Nov; 131(11):636-653.

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Sala A, Ardizzoni A, Spaggiari L, Vaidya N, van der Schaaf J, Rizzato C, Cermelli C, Mogavero S, Kr?ger T, Himmel M, Kniemeyer O, Brakhage AA, King BL, Lupetti A, Comar M, de Seta F, Tavanti A, Blasi E, Wheeler RT, Pericolini E. A New Phenotype in Candida-Epithelial Cell Interaction Distinguishes Colonization- versus Vulvovaginal Candidiasis-Associated Strains. mBio. 2023 04 25; 14(2):e0010723.

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Ajetunmobi OH, Wall G, Bonifacio BV, Montelongo-Jauregui D, Lopez-Ribot JL. A 384-Well Microtiter Plate Model for Candida Biofilm Formation and Its Application to High-Throughput Screening. Methods Mol Biol. 2023; 2658:53-64.

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Singla P, Garg S, Singh P, Sharma N, Mane P, Singh NK, Sharma S. Clinicomycological Profile and Risk Factors for Dermatophytosis at a Teaching Tertiary Care Centre in North India: A Cross-sectional Study. Infect Disord Drug Targets. 2023; 23(6):e280423216334.

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Hajeh H, Aboaid H, Fox K, Cobos E, Heidari A. What You See Is Not What You Get: Germ Cell Tumor Mimicking Disseminated Coccidioidomycosis. J Investig Med High Impact Case Rep. 2023 Jan-Dec; 11:23247096231191872.

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