| Literature DB >> 28652241 |
Teclegiorgis Gebremariam1, Sondus Alkhazraji1, Lin Lin1,2, Nathan P Wiederhold3, Edward P Garvey4, William J Hoekstra4, Robert J Schotzinger4, Thomas F Patterson3,5, Scott G Filler1,2, Ashraf S Ibrahim6,2.
Abstract
We compared prophylactic or continuous therapy with the investigational drug VT-1161 to that with posaconazole in treating murine mucormycosis due to Rhizopus arrhizus var. arrhizus In the prophylaxis studies, only VT-1161 resulted in improved survival and lowered tissue fungal burden of immunosuppressed infected mice. In the continuous therapy, VT-1161 outperformed posaconazole in prolonging mouse survival time despite its comparable effect in lowering tissue fungal burden. These results support the further development of VT-1161 against mucormycosis.Entities:
Keywords: Rhizopus arrhizus; VT-1161; mucormycosis; murine; prophylaxis
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Year: 2017 PMID: 28652241 PMCID: PMC5571349 DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00390-17
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Antimicrob Agents Chemother ISSN: 0066-4804 Impact factor: 5.191