Strategies and molecular tools to fight antimicrobial resistance: resistome, transcriptome and antimicrobial peptides

The increasing number of antibiotic resistant bacteria motivates prospective research towards discovery of new antimicrobial active substances. There are, however, controversies concerning the cost-effectiveness of such research with regards to the description of new substances with novel cellular i...

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Main Authors: Leticia Stephan Tavares, Carolina dos Santos Fernandes da Silva, Vinicius Carius Souza, Vânia Lúcia da Silva, Cláudio Galuppo Diniz, Marcelo De Oliveira Santos
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2013-12-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fmicb.2013.00412/full