Antimicrobial activity of polycationic peptides

Peptides

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1265-1273

  Giacometti, Andrea ^a   Cirioni, Oscar ^a   Barchiesi, Francesco ^a   Del Prete, Maria Simona ^a   Scalise, Giorgio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bacteria; Protozoa; Susceptibility tests; Yeasts

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BUFORIN; CECROPIN; INDOLICIDIN; MAGAININ 1; NISIN; PEPTIDE; RANALEXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIFUNGAL ACTIVITY; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CANDIDA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; CULTURE MEDIUM; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PNEUMOCYSTIS CARINII; PRIORITY JOURNAL; YEAST;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CELL DIVISION; CELL LINE; FUNGI; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES; POLYAMINES; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0032786229     PISSN: 01969781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0196-9781(99)00131-X     Document Type: Article

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