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Abstract

Antifungal drugs have already been established as an effective treatment option for infections, but there is no universal consensus on the ideal target for clinical efficacy and safety of antifungal drugs for the treatment of infections. Few studies have directly compared the efficacies of antifungal drugs for the treatment of infections. We hypothesize that different antifungal drugs offer differing clinical efficacy and safety for the treatment of infections. We performed a comprehensive network meta-analysis on different strategies for infection treatment and compared the clinical efficacy and safety of antifungal drugs as interventions for infections. The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Medline, Embase, PubMed, Web of Science, China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI), Technology of Chongqing VIP database, Wan Fang Data, and SinoMed databases were searched to identify appropriate randomized trials. Among the extracted cases, the survival and death rates with treatment of infection were compared among groups treated with different antifungal drugs. According to the evidence-network analysis, echinocandins were a better choice than other drugs for treating infections, and more importantly, caspofungin showed a more preferable effect for decreasing the risk of 30 day mortality. In conclusion, this study systematically evaluated the effectiveness and safety of antifungal drugs for the purpose of helping clinicians choose the most appropriate antifungal drugs. Future studies with larger samples are needed to evaluate the effects of patient factors on the clinical efficacy and safety of antifungal drugs for infections.

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