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CHMP recommends marketing authorization for Astellas’s antimycotic drug

The Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use or CHMP has recommended a marketing authorization for Astellas Pharma's Mycamine, 50mg and 100mg, powder for solution for infusion, intended for the treatment and prophylaxis of Candida infection.

The active substance of Mycamine is micafungin, an antimycotic for systemic use. The benefits with Mycamine are its clinical and microbiological cure and prophylaxis of Candida infection. The most common side effects are vomiting, nausea and diarrhoea and elevated liver enzymes.