How to Use antifungal in a Sentence

antifungal

adjective
Definition of antifungalnext
  • One such compound is rapamycin, first discovered on the soil of Easter Island, due to its antifungal properties.
    — João Medeiros, WIRED, 27 June 2024
  • How to get relief: For more mild cases, an antifungal shampoo may do the trick.
    — Women's Health, 27 Jan. 2023
  • After my heels and cuticles were polished and pushed back, there was a cream, a balm and an antifungal tea tree nail oil.
    — Marisa Meltzer, New York Times, 8 Aug. 2017
  • Oral antifungal pills can be used for harder-to-treat cases.
    — Heather L. Brannon, Md, Verywell Health, 29 June 2023
  • The third test would be to see if the claim by Baffert that the betamethasone came from an antifungal ointment, and not an injection, could be argued.
    — Mark Heim | [email protected], al, 2 June 2021
  • Oh, and the player donating the most money would receive a year’s supply of an antifungal cream.
    — Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2020
  • For many cases of dandruff, this antifungal shampoo will be enough of a treatment.
    — Bebe Hodges, USA TODAY, 25 Apr. 2024
  • No vaccine currently exists, and the antifungal treatment is a Band-Aid, not a cure.
    — Zoya Teirstein, Wired, 25 Sep. 2021
  • There are only three classes of antifungal drugs — azoles, polyenes, and echinocandins.
    — Helen Branswell, STAT, 22 July 2021
  • Rapamycin, an antifungal first approved to prevent organ rejection, has stretched the lives of mice by more than a third.
    — New York Times, 27 Apr. 2021
  • The Odor-Eaters products subject to recall are used as antifungal and foot odor-reducing agents.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 19 Nov. 2021
  • Zinc pyrithione is an antibacterial and antifungal agent that treats flakes and itchy scalp.
    — Patia Braithwaite, SELF, 2 Nov. 2020
  • How to treat it: Antibacterial creams like Neosporin can take care of the bacteria, and antifungal creams, like Lotrimin, can take care of the fungus.
    — Joelle Smith, Men's Health, 30 Mar. 2023
  • The antifungal drug used for treatment, amphotericin B, has run in short supply in India.
    — Washington Post, 22 June 2021
  • The drug, APX001, is a broad-spectrum antifungal agent that has gone through Phase 1 (early stage) clinical testing in healthy people.
    — Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 1 Aug. 2017
  • Despite Brexafemme being the first of its kind antifungal drug, it will likely be viewed by payers in most instances as a second- or even third-line option.
    — Joshua Cohen, Forbes, 7 June 2021
  • In the meantime, Azar started the man on an antifungal medication, itraconazole, that worked against both types of yeast.
    — Lisa Sanders, M.d., New York Times, 2 Nov. 2022
  • And the cork lid has antifungal properties, doesn’t absorb moisture, and repels fruit flies.
    — Tiffany Hopkins, Bon Appétit, 11 Dec. 2023
  • In tests, the scientists found that their antifungal chemicals killed off the fungus and eased up on fungal eye infections in lab mice.
    — Robert McMillan, WIRED, 9 Dec. 2013
  • The bill specifies that 10% or more of the funding is required to be put toward the development of antifungal products.
    — Cami Parrish, The Arizona Republic, 18 Jan. 2022
  • The treatment: Taking an antifungal pill usually does the job.
    — Mona Gohara, Good Housekeeping, 13 Mar. 2018
  • Some strains of C. auris are resistant to all three major classes of antifungal drugs.
    — Susan Scutti, CNN, 18 May 2017
  • The yeast is resistant to many commonly used antifungal drugs, making the infections hard to treat.
    — Elena Bruess, San Antonio Express-News, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Right now, there are just four classes of antifungal treatments available–and few are in the development pipeline.
    — David Angulo, Fortune, 11 Apr. 2023
  • In addition to physical therapy, he was given an antifungal drug to take for the next year.
    — Fox News, 24 Sep. 2019
  • That’s why an antifungal cream for athlete’s foot sometimes can help this condition.
    — Joe Graedon, M.s., and Teresa Graedon, Houston Chronicle, 13 May 2018
  • The doctor prescribed a thick antifungal cream and a chemical shampoo.
    — Safiya Sinclair, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
  • There are only five classes of antifungal drugs, a small number compared with the more than 20 classes of antibiotics to fight bacteria.
    — Maryn McKenna, Scientific American, 19 May 2021
  • Their antifungal activity comes from their ability to bind with cholesterol—a key component of the cell membrane—and poke holes in it, causing cell death.
    — Wired, 14 July 2022
  • Yes, hypochlorous acid has antifungal and antimicrobial properties—per Shirazi and Amin.
    — Kiana Murden, Vogue, 15 Aug. 2024

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