Onychomycosis: Potential of Nail Lacquers in Transungual Delivery of Antifungals

<table class="table-group" id="tab2"><tr><td><table class="table"><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="4"><hr/></td></tr><tr class="thead"><td class="align_left">Therapeutic category</td><td class="align_left">Examples of antifungals</td><td class="align_left">Organisms</td><td class="align_center">Reference</td></tr><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="4"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Allylamines and benzylamines</td><td class="align_left">Terbinafine-HCl, naftifine, butenafine</td><td class="align_left">T. rubrum, T. mentagrophytes, T. tonsurans, E. floccosum (fungicidal effect) Candida spp., Scopulariopsis spp., Aspergillus spp. (fungi- static activity)</td><td class="align_center" rowspan="2">
 [<a href="/journals/scientifica/2016/1387936/#B23">13</a>]</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Azoles</td><td class="align_left">Itraconazole, fluconazole, posaconazole, voriconazole, ravuconazole, isavuconazole, pramiconazole, albaconazole, efinaconazole</td><td class="align_left">C. tropicalis, C. glabrata, C. krusei, Zygomycetes, Cryptococcus neoformans</td></tr><tr class="table-tr"><td colspan="4"><hr class="tbody-hr"/></td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

Antifungal agents utilized in the treatment of onychomycosis.

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