Antimicrobial activity of cecropins

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1077-1089

  Moore, Alison J ^a   Beazley, Wayne D ^a   Bibby, Michael C ^a   Devine, Deirdre A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CECROPIN; CECROPIN B; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PROTOPLAST; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; DRUG EVALUATION, PRECLINICAL; DRUG SYNERGISM; ERYTHROCYTES; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; HUMANS; INSECT HORMONES; INSECT PROTEINS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES; PROTOPLASTS; SPHEROPLASTS;

EID: 0029756481     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/37.6.1077     Document Type: Article

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