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===Treatment=== There are relatively few drugs that can successfully treat Candidiasis.<ref name="Sellama">{{cite journal | vauthors = Sellam A, Whiteway M | title = Recent advances on ''Candida albicans'' biology and virulence | journal = F1000Research | volume = 5 | pages = 2582 | date = 2016 | pmid = 27853524 | pmc = 5089126 | doi = 10.12688/f1000research.9617.1 | doi-access = free }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = | title = Stop neglecting fungi | journal = Nature Microbiology | volume = 2 | issue = 8 | pages = 17120 | date = July 2017 | pmid = 28741610 | doi = 10.1038/nmicrobiol.2017.120 | doi-access = free }}</ref> Treatment commonly includes:<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Rambach G, Oberhauser H, Speth C, Lass-FlΓΆrl C | title = Susceptibility of Candida species and various moulds to antimycotic drugs: use of epidemiological cutoff values according to EUCAST and CLSI in an 8-year survey | journal = Medical Mycology | volume = 49 | issue = 8 | pages = 856β863 | date = November 2011 | pmid = 21619497 | doi = 10.3109/13693786.2011.583943 | doi-access = free }}</ref> * [[amphotericin B]], [[echinocandin]], or [[fluconazole]] for systemic infections * [[nystatin]] for oral and esophageal infections * [[clotrimazole]] for skin and genital yeast infections<ref>{{cite book | vauthors = Tortora GJ, Funke BR, Case CL |title= Microbiology an Introduction |year=2002 |url=https://archive.org/details/microbiologyintr00gera |url-access=limited |publisher=Pearson Benjamin Cummings |location=San Francisco, CA. |pages=[https://archive.org/details/microbiologyintr00gera/page/759 759] |edition=10th}}</ref> Similarly to antibiotic resistance, resistance to many anti-fungals is becoming a problem. New anti-fungals have to be developed to cope with this problem since only a limited number of anti-fungals are available.<ref name="Sellama"/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cdc.gov/fungal/antifungal-resistance.html|title=Antifungal Resistance β Fungal Diseases β CDC|date=26 June 2017|website=www.cdc.gov|access-date=27 March 2018|archive-date=19 May 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170519094753/https://www.cdc.gov/fungal/antifungal-resistance.html|url-status=live}}</ref> A general problem is that in contrast to bacteria, fungi are often overlooked as a potential health problem.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = | title = Stop neglecting fungi | journal = Nature Microbiology | volume = 2 | issue = 8 | pages = 17120 | date = July 2017 | pmid = 28741610 | doi = 10.1038/nmicrobiol.2017.120 | doi-access = free | department = Editorial }}</ref>
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