Professional footballers seem as likely to suffer from fungal infections of the foot as other people.

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is also reviewing its anidulafungin, a new drug for the treatment of deadly fungal infections that would be given once a month.

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The agency says some drugs should never be taken with Mevacor including protease inhibitors, a class of HIV drugs and certain drugs used to treat bacterial and fungal infections.

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Versicor brought to the table a host of interesting programs early in the research pipeline and an antifungal drug, anidulafungin, which is now being evaluated by the FDA to treat invasive fungal infections that can damage the internal organs of patients with already compromised immune systems.

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