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ReviewJournal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland)2020

Review of the Novel Echinocandin Antifungal Rezafungin: Animal Studies and Clinical Data.

Yanan Zhao, David S Perlin

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Review in Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
23citing papers in PubMed
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 19% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

23 citing papers in PubMed, 43 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Treatment Outcomes Among Patients With a Positive Candida Culture Close to Randomization Receiving Rezafungin or Caspofungin in the ReSTORE Study.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2024
    Trial
  2. Trial
  3. Article
  4. Microbiology and molecular biology reviews : MMBR · 2026
    Review
  5. Article
  6. Rezafungin as Primary Prophylaxis ofJournal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026
    Article
  7. Real-life use of isavuconazole in Spanish children and adolescents.The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy · 2026
    Article
  8. Article
  9. Review
  10. Article
  11. New Perspectives on Antimicrobial Agents: Rezafungin.Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy · 2025
    Review
  12. Microbiology and molecular biology reviews : MMBR · 2024
    Review
  13. Mucormycosis: A Rare disease to Notifiable Disease.Brazilian journal of microbiology : [publication of the Brazilian Society for Microbiology] · 2024
    Review
  14. Article
  15. Article
  16. Review
  17. Pulmonary aspergillosis: diagnosis and treatment.European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society · 2022
    Article
  18. Echinocandins - structure, mechanism of action and use in antifungal therapy.Journal of enzyme inhibition and medicinal chemistry · 2022
    Review
  19. Article
  20. Review
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Yanan ZhaoCenter for Discovery and Innovation, Hackensack Meridian Health, Nutley, NJ 07110, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2664-2795
David S PerlinCenter for Discovery and Innovation, Hackensack Meridian Health, Nutley, NJ 07110, USA.
Hackensack Meridian Health · US

Funding

NIH HHS AI109025
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Rezafungin is a novel echinocandin drug being developed as a first-line option for treatment and prevention of invasive fungal infections. As a result of a structural modification in its parent molecule anidulafungin, rezafungin has acquired unique chemical stability conferring prolonged pharmacokinetics, as well as an administration advantage in the clinical setting compared to other drugs in the same class. Rezafungin displays potent in vitro activity against a wide spectrum of fungal pathogens, which is reflected in robust in vivo efficacy and/or pharmacodynamic studies using various animal models as well as in promising clinical trials data. This review describes in vivo characterization of rezafungin using animal models, current status of clinical development and key findings from these studies.

Indexed as

AspergillusCandidaclinical trialechinocandinefficacyinvasive fungal infectionspharmacokinetics/pharmacodynamicsPneumocystisrezafungin

Identifiers

PMID32998224
PMCPMC7712954
OpenAlexW3087763370

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