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ReviewApplied microbiology and biotechnology2024

Old and new strategies in therapy and diagnosis against fungal infections.

Tania Vanzolini, Mauro Magnani

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Review in Applied microbiology and biotechnology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
13citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
6.2field-weighted citation impact, top 3% 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

13 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 16 citations in OpenAlex.

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  6. HybridPharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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  7. The Contribution of Human Antimicrobial Peptides to Fungi.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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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.

Tania VanzoliniDepartment of Biomolecular Sciences, University of Urbino Carlo Bo, 61029, Urbino, PU, Italy. tania.vanzolini@uniurb.it.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9053-1558
Mauro MagnaniDepartment of Biomolecular Sciences, University of Urbino Carlo Bo, 61029, Urbino, PU, Italy.
University of Urbino · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Fungal infections represent a serious global health threat. The new emerging pathogens and the spread of different forms of resistance are now hardly challenging the tools available in therapy and diagnostics. With the commonly used diagnoses, fungal identification is often slow and inaccurate, and, on the other hand, some drugs currently used as treatments are significantly affected by the decrease in susceptibility. Herein, the antifungal arsenal is critically summarized. Besides describing the old approaches and their mechanisms, advantages, and limitations, the focus is dedicated to innovative strategies which are designed, identified, and developed to take advantage of the discrepancies between fungal and host cells. Relevant pathways and their role in survival and virulence are discussed as their suitability as sources of antifungal targets. In a similar way, molecules with antifungal activity are reported as potential agents/precursors of the next generation of antimycotics. Particular attention was devoted to biotechnological entities, to their novelty and reliability, to drug repurposing and restoration, and to combinatorial applications yielding significant improvements in efficacy. KEY POINTS: • New antifungal agents and targets are needed to limit fungal morbidity and mortality. • Therapeutics and diagnostics suffer of delays in innovation and lack of targets. • Biologics, drug repurposing and combinations are the future of antifungal treatments.

Indexed as

Antifungal AgentsMycosesDrug Resistance, FungalHumansReproducibility of ResultsVirulenceAntifungal AgentsAntifungal diagnosticsAntifungal drugsAntifungal targetAntifungal treatmentFungiResistance

Identifiers

PMID38240822
PMCPMC10799149
OpenAlexW4391034256

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