Prescription oral (by mouth) antifungal medications may be used for a laboratory-confirmed toenail fungus. The most common treatment is a 12-week course of a drug called terbinafine. However ...

Terbinafine, an allylamine antifungal, inhibits biosynthesis of ergosterol, an essential component of fungal cell membrane, via inhibition of squalene epoxidase enzyme. This results in fungal cell ...

Terbinafine, the active ingredient in Lamisil ... for several weeks after the fungi (dermatophytes) have been killed. Fungal nail infections: Fungal nail infections usually take longer to heal ...

Cutaneous fungal infections that generally require ... [3] Although griseofulvin remains the recommended therapy, terbinafine, itraconazole [4] and fluconazole [5] have been reported to show ...