Lysates of Locusta migratoria brain exhibit potent broad-spectrum antibacterial activity

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 634-635

  Khan, Naveed Ahmed ^a   Osman, Khadijo ^a   Goldsworthy, Graham John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antibiotic; Insects; Orthoptera

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHATE BUFFERED SALINE;

ADIPOCYTE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BRAIN CELL; CELL LYSATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INCUBATION TIME; LETTER; LOCUST; MENINGITIS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MUSCLE CELL; NONHUMAN; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMANS; LOCUSTA MIGRATORIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TISSUE EXTRACTS;

EID: 49649126181     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkn239     Document Type: Letter

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