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Mini-Review Article

Therapeutic Approaches for Combating Aspergillus Associated Infection

Author(s): Aruna Punia, Pooja Choudhary, Namita Sharma, Sweety Dahiya, Prity Gulia and Anil K. Chhillar*

Volume 23, Issue 16, 2022

Published on: 06 October, 2022

Page: [1465 - 1488] Pages: 24

DOI: 10.2174/1389450123666220623164548

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Abstract

Now-a-days fungal infection emerges as a significant problem to healthcare management systems due to high frequency of associated morbidity, mortality toxicity, drug-drug interactions, and resistance of the antifungal agents. Aspergillus is the most common mold that cause infection in immunocompromised hosts. It's a hyaline mold that is cosmopolitan and ubiquitous in nature. Aspergillus infects around 10 million population each year with a mortality rate of 30-90%. Clinically available antifungal formulations are restricted to four classes (i.e., polyene, triazole, echinocandin, and allylamine), and each of them have their own limitations associated with the activity spectrum, the emergence of resistance, and toxicity. Consequently, novel antifungal agents with modified and altered chemical structures are required to combat these invasive fungal infections. To overcome these limitations, there is an urgent need for new antifungal agents that can act as potent drugs in near future. Currently, some compounds have shown effective antifungal activity. In this review article, we have discussed all potential antifungal therapies that contain old antifungal drugs, combination therapies, and recent novel antifungal formulations, with a focus on the Aspergillus associated infections.

Keywords: Aspergillus, invasive aspergillosis, polyenes, azoles, echinocandins, novel drugs.

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