A bacterium makes a molecule that kills drug-resistant fungi in an unusual way — by targeting various phospholipid molecules in membranes.

Bacteria have evolved to produce natural products that can kill fungi, and these products have been used to develop ...

The evolution of antifungal ... drugs from this class enter the clinic. The US Environmental Protection Agency has recently authorized the fungicide ipflufenoquin, which shares the same mechanism ...

Scientists have identified strains of one of the world's most dangerous fungal pathogens, already resistant to our most effective antifungal drugs, which are also five times more likely to acquire ...

This new information opens opportunities to devise more effective uses of antifungal drugs. The results were published July 31 in the journal Nature Communications. "In order to improve the use of ...