Differential activity of innate defense antimicrobial peptides against Nocardia species

BMC Microbiology

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Rieg, Siegbert ^a   Meier, Benjamin ^a   Fähnrich, Eva ^a   Huth, Anja ^a   Wagner, Dirk ^a   Kern, Winfried V ^a   Kalbacher, Hubert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA DEFENSIN; BETA DEFENSIN 3; CATHELICIDIN ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDE LL 37; INDOLICIDIN; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDE; BETA DEFENSIN; CATHELICIDIN; OFLOXACIN;

ARTICLE; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IN VITRO STUDY; INNATE IMMUNITY; NEUTROPHIL CHEMOTAXIS; NOCARDIA; NOCARDIA ASTEROIDES; NOCARDIA BRASILIENSIS; NOCARDIA FARCINICA; NONHUMAN; SPECIES; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL COUNT; CATTLE; DRUG EFFECT; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; NOCARDIOSIS;

BOVINAE; NOCARDIA; NOCARDIA ASTEROIDES; NOCARDIA BRASILIENSIS; NOCARDIA FARCINICA; NOCARDIA NOVA;

ALPHA-DEFENSINS; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; BETA-DEFENSINS; CATHELICIDINS; CATTLE; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; NOCARDIA; NOCARDIA INFECTIONS; OFLOXACIN;

EID: 77649290520     PISSN: 14712180     EISSN: 14712180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2180-10-61     Document Type: Article

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