Table 3.

Clinical trials using aPDT as treatment.

Disease	Fungus species	aPDT	Additional treatment	Final outcome	Reference
Pityriasis versicolor	Malassezia species	ALA-PDT	–	Complete clearance	Kim and Kim (2007)
Onychomycosis	T. rubrum	ALA-PDT	Treatment with 40% urea ointment for 12 h prior to aPDT	Clinical and microbiological cures	Piraccini et al. (2008)
Onychomycosis	–	ALA and red light	–	Significant improvement after treatments	Sotiriou et al. (2010)
Malassezia infection	M. folliculitis	MAL-PDT		Control of the tissue fungal burden	Lee et al. (2010)
Onychomycosis	F. oxysporum and A. terreus	MAL 16% and LED	Treatment with 40% urea ointment for 12 h prior to aPDT	Clinical and microbiological cures	Gilaberte et al. (2011)
Denture stomatitis (DS)	Candida species	Photogem® and LED	–	Mycological cultures	Mima et al. (2012)
Sporotrichosis	S. schenckii complex	MB-PDT	Low dose itraconazole	Complete microbiological and clinical response	Gilaberte et al. (2014)
Chromoblastomycosis	F. pedrosoi and C. carrionii	MB and LED light		Control of the tissue fungal burdens	Lyon et al. (2011)