The pharmacology, bioavailability and pharmacokinetics, clinical efficacy, and adverse effects of caspofungin acetate are reviewed. Caspofungin acetate is an echinocandin with fungicidal activity ...
Since mid-2002, two new antifungal drugs — voriconazole, a third-generation azole, and caspofungin, a member of a new class of drugs called echinocandins — have been marketed in Spain.