Lactoferricin Peptides Increase Macrophages' Capacity To Kill Mycobacterium avium

Mycobacterial infections cause a significant burden of disease and death worldwide. Their treatment is long, toxic, costly, and increasingly prone to failure due to bacterial resistance to currently available antibiotics. New therapeutic options are thus clearly needed. Antimicrobial peptides repres...

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Main Author: Silva, T (author)
Other Authors: Moreira, AC (author), Nazmi, K (author), Moniz, T (author), Vale, N (author), Rangel, M (author), Gomes, P (author), Bolscher, JGM (author), Rodrigues, PN (author), Bastos, M (author), Gomes, MS (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2017
Subjects:
Mycobacterium
Antimicrobial peptide
Autophagy
Lactoferricin
Macrophages
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10216/114488
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorio-aberto.up.pt:10216/114488

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http://hdl.handle.net/10216/114488

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