{"title":"Overcoming Global Antifungal Challenges: Medical and Agricultural Aspects","authors":"László Galgóczy*, ","doi":"10.1021/acsbiomedchemau.5c00103","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p >The prevalence of fungal infections and contamination has increased alarmingly over the past decade, posing a significant threat to human health and the food supply and negatively affecting welfare. This escalating concern is primarily attributed to the lack of safe, effective, and widely available antifungal agents; the increasing spread of (multi)drug resistance to conventional antifungal treatments; and substantial epidemiological shifts in fungal pathogens. Decision-making bodies have recognized the urgency of this situation and prioritized efforts to address and mitigate the spread of drug-resistant fungal infections by developing and implementing innovative antifungal strategies, including using drug combinations, designing fundamentally new antifungal compounds with fungus-specific mechanisms of action and a minimal risk of resistance development, drug repurposing, and exploring alternative approaches, such as biomolecules, nanotechnology, and biological control. This review aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the current challenges associated with fungal infections in medicine and agriculture as well as the latest advancements and potential solutions.</p>","PeriodicalId":29802,"journal":{"name":"ACS Bio & Med Chem Au","volume":"5 4","pages":"531–552"},"PeriodicalIF":4.3000,"publicationDate":"2025-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acsbiomedchemau.5c00103","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"ACS Bio & Med Chem Au","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsbiomedchemau.5c00103","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The prevalence of fungal infections and contamination has increased alarmingly over the past decade, posing a significant threat to human health and the food supply and negatively affecting welfare. This escalating concern is primarily attributed to the lack of safe, effective, and widely available antifungal agents; the increasing spread of (multi)drug resistance to conventional antifungal treatments; and substantial epidemiological shifts in fungal pathogens. Decision-making bodies have recognized the urgency of this situation and prioritized efforts to address and mitigate the spread of drug-resistant fungal infections by developing and implementing innovative antifungal strategies, including using drug combinations, designing fundamentally new antifungal compounds with fungus-specific mechanisms of action and a minimal risk of resistance development, drug repurposing, and exploring alternative approaches, such as biomolecules, nanotechnology, and biological control. This review aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the current challenges associated with fungal infections in medicine and agriculture as well as the latest advancements and potential solutions.
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ACS Bio & Med Chem Au is a broad scope open access journal which publishes short letters comprehensive articles reviews and perspectives in all aspects of biological and medicinal chemistry. Studies providing fundamental insights or describing novel syntheses as well as clinical or other applications-based work are welcomed.This broad scope includes experimental and theoretical studies on the chemical physical mechanistic and/or structural basis of biological or cell function in all domains of life. It encompasses the fields of chemical biology synthetic biology disease biology cell biology agriculture and food natural products research nucleic acid biology neuroscience structural biology and biophysics.The journal publishes studies that pertain to a broad range of medicinal chemistry including compound design and optimization biological evaluation molecular mechanistic understanding of drug delivery and drug delivery systems imaging agents and pharmacology and translational science of both small and large bioactive molecules. Novel computational cheminformatics and structural studies for the identification (or structure-activity relationship analysis) of bioactive molecules ligands and their targets are also welcome. The journal will consider computational studies applying established computational methods but only in combination with novel and original experimental data (e.g. in cases where new compounds have been designed and tested).Also included in the scope of the journal are articles relating to infectious diseases research on pathogens host-pathogen interactions therapeutics diagnostics vaccines drug-delivery systems and other biomedical technology development pertaining to infectious diseases.
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