Beyond tissue concentrations : antifungal penetration at the site of infection

© The Author(s) 2019. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The International Society for Human and Animal Mycology..

Despite advances in antifungal therapy, invasive fungal infections remain a significant cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. One important factor contributing to the relative ineffectiveness of existing antifungal drugs is insufficient drug exposure at the site of infection. Despite the importance of this aspect of antifungal therapy, we generally lack a full appreciation of how antifungal drugs distribute, penetrate, and interact with their target organisms in different tissue subcompartments. A better understanding of drug distribution will be critical to guide appropriate use of currently available antifungal drugs, as well as to aid development of new agents. Herein we briefly review current perspectives of antifungal drug exposure at the site of infection and describe a new technique, matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization (MALDI) mass spectrometry imaging, which has the potential to greatly expand our understanding of drug penetration.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2019

Erschienen:

2019

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:57

Enthalten in:

Medical mycology - 57(2019), Supplement_2 vom: 01. Apr., Seite S161-S167

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Zhao, Yanan [VerfasserIn]
Prideaux, Brendan [VerfasserIn]
Baistrocchi, Shane [VerfasserIn]
Sheppard, Donald C [VerfasserIn]
Perlin, David S [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Antifungal Agents
Antifungals
Drug quantification
Journal Article
MALDI imaging
Posaconazole
Review
Site of infection
Tissue penetration

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Date Completed 25.03.2019

Date Revised 13.06.2020

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1093/mmy/myy067

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM294413944