Ashley Gonshorek provides a presentation on antifungal drugs in the NCLEX Pharmacology Review Part 5 in under 6 minutes.
Antifungals
- Amphotericin B (Fungazone) is a treatment for systemic fungal infections.
- Griseofulvin (Fulvicin) is used for treatment of ringworm infections of skin, hair, and nails.
- Terbinafine (Lamisil) is used to treat fungal skin infections and fungal nail infections.
“-azole” Family is used to treat a wide variety of systemic fungal infections.
- Ketoconazole (Nizoral)
- Fluconazole (Diflucan)
- Ifraconazole (Sporanox)
- Vorconazole (Vfend)
Nystatin
- Mycostatin is used to treat gastrointestinal and vaginal candida (yeast) infections.
Anthelmintics – treatment for heminths (parasitic worms)
- Quinacrine (Atabrine)
- Mebendazole
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If you missed the NCLEX Pharmacology Review Part 1, you can click here to watch Ashley Gonshorek provide the presentation on aminoglycosides, vancomycin, penicillin, and cephalosporin.
If you missed the NCLEX Pharmacology Review part 2, you can click here to watch the presentation on erythromycins, tetracyclines, chloramphenicol, quinolines, and sulfonamides.
If you missed the NCLEX Pharmacology Review part 3, you can click here to watch the presentation on antitubercular drugs as well as antiviral drugs for herpes simplex, herpes zoster virus 1 and 2, and more.
If you missed the NCLEX Pharmacology Review part 4, you can click here to watch the presentation that covers a review of antiretroviral drugs in under 7 minutes.
HT: Ashley Gonshorek
