Antimicrobial fibers: Therapeutic possibilities and recent advances

Future Medicinal Chemistry

Volumn 3, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 1821-1847

  Bshena, Osama ^a   Heunis, Tiaan D J ^a   Dicks, Leon M T ^a   Klumperman, Bert ^a  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 HYDROXYBIPHENYL; ACRYLAMIDE DERIVATIVE; ALCOHOL; ALPHA DEFENSIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ANTIMICROBIAL FIBER; ANTIMICROBIAL POLYMER; BACTERIOCIN; BENZALKONIUM CHLORIDE; BIGUANIDE DERIVATIVE; CECROPIN; CETRIMONIUM CHLORIDE; CHITOSAN; CLOROFENE; COLICIN; LABYRINTHOPEPTIN; LANTIBIOTIC; MALEIMIDE DERIVATIVE; NANOFIBER; NISIN; PEDIOCIN; POLYMER; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; SACTIBIOTIC; TRICLOSAN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; DRUG CYTOTOXICITY; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG STRUCTURE; ELECTROSPINNING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REVIEW; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ACINETOBACTER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE; ENTEROCOCCUS; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 80054959873     PISSN: 17568919     EISSN: 17568927     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4155/fmc.11.131     Document Type: Review

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