title: Special Issue: Novel Antifungal Drug Discovery.
abstract: This Special Issue is designed to highlight the latest research and development on new antifungal compounds with mechanisms of action different from the ones of polyenes, azoles, and echinocandins. The papers presented here highlight new pathways and targets that could be exploited for the future development of new antifungal agents to be used alone or in combination with existing antifungals. A computational model for better predicting antifungal drug resistance is also presented.
authors.affiliation: Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA; maurizio.delpoeta@stonybrook.edu; Tel.: +1-631-632-4024; ; Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Northport, NY 11768, USA.
authors.forename: Maurizio
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Del Poeta
keywords: antifungal drug; drug resistance; fungal infection; fungal virulence; mathematical model; phospholipase; sphingolipid