Otomi Cho, Shintaro Takada, Takahiro Odaka, Satoshi Futamura, Sanae Kurakado, Takashi Sugita
Tacrolimus (FK506), an immunosuppressant and calcineurin inhibitor, has fungicidal effects. However, its fungicidal effect is thought to be limited to basidiomycetes, such as Cryptococcus and Malassezia , and not to ascomycetes. FK506 had no fungicidal effect on Candida albicans , C. auris , C. glabrata , C. guilliermondii , C. kefyr , C. krusei , and C. tropicalis (>8 µg/mL); however, C. parapsilosis was susceptible to it at low concentrations of 0.125-0.5 µg/mL. C. metapsilosis and C. orthopsils , previously classified as C...
July 24, 2023: Journal of Fungi (Basel, Switzerland)