Monocaprin eye drop formulation to combat antibiotic resistant gonococcal blindness

Abstract Neisseria gonorrhoeae bacteria are acknowledged as an urgent threat to human health because this species has developed resistances to all of the antibiotics used clinically to treat its infections. N. gonorrhoeae causes the sexually transmitted disease gonorrhoea, but also causes blindness...

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Main Authors: Colin P. Churchward, Ali A. Al-Kinani, Hamdy Abdelkader, Julian Swinden, Opeoluwa Siwoku, Thinuba Varnakulasingam, Raid G. Alany, Lori A. S. Snyder
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2020-07-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-68722-8