Antimycobacterial Activity of a New Peptide Polydim-I Isolated from Neotropical Social Wasp Polybia dimorpha.

Mycobacterium abscessus subsp. massiliense, a rapidly growing mycobacteria (RGM) that is becoming increasingly important among human infectious diseases, is virulent and pathogenic and presents intrinsic resistance to several antimicrobial drugs that might hamper their elimination. Therefore, the id...

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Main Authors: Rogerio Coutinho das Neves, Monalisa Martins Trentini, Juliana de Castro e Silva, Karina Smidt Simon, Anamelia Lorenzetti Bocca, Luciano Paulino Silva, Marcia Renata Mortari, Andre Kipnis, Ana Paula Junqueira-Kipnis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4773228?pdf=render