Antifungal agent
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antifungal antibiotic, atovaquone, fluconazole, flucytosine, furocoumarin, itraconazole, ketoconazole
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Scope Note
substances that are destructive to fungi, suppress their reproduction or growth, or are effective against fungal infection.
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- Walsh General Concepts Definition An antifungal agent is a drug that selectively eliminates fungal pathogens from a host with minimal toxicity to the host.
- The medicament container of claim 1, wherein said antifungal agent is oxiconazole and said antiinflammatory agent is fluticasone.
- A preferred antifungal agent is cetylpyridinium chloride.
- So, given the greater number of options, which antifungal agent is best for empirical antifungal therapy? To address this question, and to allow clinical trials with reasonable sample sizes to be conducted, composite end points were adopted in the mid-1990s.
- A minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) value for each antifungal agent is obtained from the assay.
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