In Vitro Combination Effect of Topical and Oral Anti-Onychomycosis Drugs on Trichophyton rubrum and Trichophyton interdigitale. 2021

Keita Sugiura, and Akane Masumoto, and Haruki Tachibana, and Yoshiyuki Tatsumi
Pharmacology Department, Drug Research Center, Kaken Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., 14 Shinomiya, Minamigawara-cho, Yamashina-ku, Kyoto 607-8042, Japan.

To evaluate the combination effects of anti-onychomycosis drugs, the minimum inhibitory concentrations of topical (efinaconazole, luliconazole, and tavaborole) and oral (itraconazole and terbinafine) drugs for Trichophyton rubrum and Trichophyton interdigitale (8 each, with a total of 16 strains) were determined using the microdilution checkerboard technique based on the Clinical and Laboratory Standard Institute guidelines. No antagonism was observed between the topical and oral drugs against all the tested strains. Efinaconazole with terbinafine exerted a synergistic effect on 43.8% of the strains tested (7/16 strains) and efinaconazole with itraconazole on 12.5% (2/16 strains). Conversely, luliconazole showed no synergistic effect with terbinafine but was synergistically effective with itraconazole against 31.3% of the strains (5/16 strains). Tavaborole showed no synergistic effect with terbinafine and was synergistically effective with itraconazole against 18.8% of the strains (3/16 strains). The results suggest that a combination of topical and oral drugs could be a potential clinical option for onychomycosis treatment, and overall, the efinaconazole and oral drug combination would be the most advantageous among the tested combinations.

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