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Yeast Membrane Transport

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Attention for Chapter 14: Antifungals: Mechanism of Action and Drug Resistance
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Chapter title
Antifungals: Mechanism of Action and Drug Resistance
Chapter number 14
Book title
Yeast Membrane Transport
Published in
Advances in experimental medicine and biology, February 2016
DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-25304-6_14
Pubmed ID
Book ISBNs
978-3-31-925302-2, 978-3-31-925304-6
Authors

Rajendra Prasad, Abdul Haseeb Shah, Manpreet Kaur Rawal, Prasad, Rajendra, Shah, Abdul Haseeb, Rawal, Manpreet Kaur

Abstract

There are currently few antifungals in use which show efficacy against fungal diseases. These antifungals mostly target specific components of fungal plasma membrane or its biosynthetic pathways. However, more recent class of antifungals in use is echinocandins which target the fungal cell wall components. The availability of mostly fungistatic antifungals in clinical use, often led to the development of tolerance to these very drugs by the pathogenic fungal species. Thus, the development of clinical multidrug resistance (MDR) leads to higher tolerance to drugs and its emergence is helped by multiple mechanisms. MDR is indeed a multifactorial phenomenon wherein a resistant organism possesses several mechanisms which contribute to display reduced susceptibility to not only single drug in use but also show collateral resistance to several drugs. Considering the limited availability of antifungals in use and the emergence of MDR in fungal infections, there is a continuous need for the development of novel broad spectrum antifungal drugs with better efficacy. Here, we briefly present an overview of the current understanding of the antifungal drugs in use, their mechanism of action and the emerging possible novel antifungal drugs with great promise.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Brazil 1 <1%
Unknown 239 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 43 18%
Student > Master 23 10%
Student > Ph. D. Student 22 9%
Researcher 13 5%
Student > Postgraduate 13 5%
Other 33 14%
Unknown 93 39%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 31 13%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 25 10%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 20 8%
Immunology and Microbiology 20 8%
Medicine and Dentistry 19 8%
Other 26 11%
Unknown 99 41%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 16 June 2022.
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#6,539,971
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Outputs from Advances in experimental medicine and biology
#1,002
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#103,764
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Outputs of similar age from Advances in experimental medicine and biology
#89
of 421 outputs
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