Activity of protegrins against yeast-phase Candida albicans

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 2486-2493

  Cho, Yoon ^a   Turner, Jeffrey S ^a   Dinh, Nhu Nguyen ^a   Lehrer, Robert I ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Box 951690 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; DEXTRO AMINO ACID; DISULFIDE; HUMAN SERUM ALBUMIN; PEPTIDE HORMONE; PROTEGRIN; PROTEGRIN 1; PROTEGRIN 2; PROTEGRIN 3; PROTEGRIN 4; PROTEGRIN 5; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SYNTHETIC PEPTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ANTIFUNGAL ACTIVITY; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION; DILUTION; DISULFIDE BOND; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; YEAST;

CANDIDA ALBICANS;

EID: 0031842041     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.66.6.2486-2493.1998     Document Type: Article

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