Determining the effect of treatment with an exogenous host defence peptide on Mycobacterium marinum-zebrafish infection

We urgently require novel antimicrobial therapies for TB infections as a third of the world’s population is infected with latent TB and cases of multidrug-resistant TB are increasing. Naturally occurring host defence peptides (HDPs), components of the innate immune system, provide protection against...

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Main Author: Price, Rebecca Louise
Other Authors: Williams, Huw D.
Published: Imperial College London 2017
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Online Access:https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.726971