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Antifungal Resistance and its Evolution: An Increasing Concern-Advances in Biotechnology & Microbiology-Juniper Publishers

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Antifungal Resistance and its Evolution: An Increasing Concern


Authored by Claudia Ortiz*

This work describes different mechanism of drug resistance and some aspects of evolution of fungi in order to evade antifungal effects. Fungal infections are an issue of concern, and it is necessary to develop new strategies in order to mitigate mortality rates caused by these types of pathogens. However, fungi exhibit different resistance mechanisms, ranging from genetic mutations to metabolic adaptations to the action of several antifungal compounds available for clinical treatments. However, some antifungal resistance are no-evident and need to be studied in order to avoid rising of new resistant fungal strains. Moreover, it is well known that drug resistance is linked to fungal evolution. For this reason, it is important to understand adaptation mechanisms carried out by fungi to resist antibiotic action, such as aminoacid mutations or different metabolic responses of fungal species to several antifungal drugs, in order to, design both new antifungal compounds or strategies for treating fungal infections.


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