History risks repeating itself with a new generation of antifungals.
As with existing fungicides, new pesticides have the potential to render medical treatments ineffective, announces a study published in
Nature
last December.
The problem has been known for more than twenty years for azole antifungals, the family of molecules most used to combat unwanted fungi.
Particularly effective, they are used as pesticides in agriculture and wood treatment, but also in medicine, where they are favored as a first treatment for fungal infections because they are well supported by the body and protect against most pathogenic fungi. .
The only problem is that this massive use creates resistance.
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We realized that some patients had lung infections caused by fungi, notably Aspergillus fumigatus, with strains that were resistant to medical treatments ,
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says…
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