Antimycotic drugs

Antimycotic drugs

Antimycotic, or antifungal, drugs are used to treat fungal infec-tions. The major antifungal drug groups include:

·                 polyenes

·                 fluorinated pyrimidine

·                 imidazole

·                 synthetic triazoles

·                 glucan synthesis inhibitors

·                 synthetic allylamine derivatives. (See Other antimycoticdrugs.)