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Flucytosine An Antifungal Agent

The medicine Flucytosine is an antifungal agent. It is a white to off-white crystalline powder, and fungal organisms take this drug via the enzyme cytosine permease.

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Flucytosine An Antifungal Agent

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  1. Flucytosine: An Antifungal Agent

  2. The medicine Flucytosine is an antifungal agent. It is a white to off-white crystalline powder, and fungal organisms take this drug via the enzyme cytosine permease. Inside the fungal cell, Flucytosine is rapidly converted to fluorouracil by the enzyme cytosine deaminase. Fluorouracil exerts its antifungal activity through the subsequent conversion into several active metabolites, which inhibit protein synthesis by being falsely incorporated into fungal RNA or interfere with the biosynthesis of fungal DNA by inhibiting the enzyme thymidylate synthetase.

  3. Dosage STUDIO SHODWE The medicine Flucytosine 500 mg comes in tablets of 500 mg to administer orally via the mouth. The active ingredient in the tablets is Flucytosine with inactive ingredients corn starch, lactose, and talc. Healthcare professionals recommend the usual dosage of Flucytosine is 50 to 150 mg/kg/day and administered in divided doses at 6-hour intervals. Technology Business

  4. Side-effects The common side-effects of Flucytosine are: loss of appetite diarrhea vomiting psychosis bone marrow suppression

  5. Price of Flucytosine You can buy Flucytosine from India at reasonable cost from various generic medicine suppliers. The Indian Pharma is one such certified generic medicine supplier, supplying quality medicines all over the world.

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