Anticandidal Therapeutics: Discovery and Development

Developments of anti-fungal agents have declined as compared to other antibiotics that have displayed a potent development with time. There is an urgent need for both prophylactic and therapeutic treatments worldwide to control the severity of infections caused by Candida. Anticandidal Therapeutics: Discovery and Development provides the readers with compiled knowledge on the fungal human infection Candida and development of anticandidal drugs. Anticandidal Therapeutics: Discovery and Development help researchers form the basis of discovery and development of novel anticandidal therapies. In 14 chapters this book provides collective information on anticandidal agents, their discovery and development with respect to major drug transporter families, different stages of anticandidal agent development, recent trends and progress in antifungal translational research, clinical studies status of anticandidal therapeutic agents, and drug repurposing for development of novel anticandidals.