Antifungal therapy is treatment with an antifungal, or antimycotic, medication that kills or inhibits the growth of fungi, used to treat and prevent mycosis, a fungal infection ranging from common conditions such as athlete's foot and ringworm to serious systemic disease such as cryptococcal meningitis. Most antifungal drugs require a doctor's prescription, though a few are available over the counter, and a growing concern in the field is the evolution of antifungal resistance, a threat to global health comparable to the better known problem of antibiotic resistance.
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Antifungal therapy is a standard treatment for fungal (eumycetoma) forms of mycetoma.
Antifungal therapy is a standard treatment for candidal vaginitis.
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1. Wikipedia: Nystatin
WikipediaHistory section, sentence on the 1950 isolation by Hazen and Brown
It was isolated from Streptomyces noursei in 1950 by Elizabeth Lee Hazen and Rachel Fuller Brown, who were doing research for the Division of Laboratories and Research of the New York State Department of Health.
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