An Antifungal medication is a pharmaceutical fungicide used to treat mycoses such as athlete's foot, ringworm, candidiasis (thrush), serious systemic infections such as cryptococcalmeningitis, and others.
The termAntibacterialwas first used in 1942 bySelman Waksmanand his collaborators in journal articles to describe any substance produced by a microorganism that isantagonisticto the growth of other microorganisms in high dilution.[3]This definition excluded substances that kill bacteria, but are not produced by microorganisms (such asgastric juicesandhydrogen peroxide). It also excludedsyntheticantibacterial compounds such as thesulfonamides.