For instance,the dithiocarbamates, used as fungicides in agriculture, possess antiviral,antibacterial, antiparasitic, or antifungal properties that can beused in medicine.25 Furthermore, commercialacetohydroxyacid synthase (AHAS)-inhibiting herbicides have also beenproposed to treat human fungal infections, such as the ones causedby Cryptococcus neoformans and Candida albicans, due to its high efficacy againstthese species and low toxicity to mammalian cells.26 This evidence concerns the gene HACL2 and fungal infectious disease.