Amphotericin B- and Fluconazole-Resistant Candida spp., Aspergillus fumigatus, and Other Newly Emerging Pathogenic Fungi Are Susceptible to Basic Antifungal Peptides

The present study shows that a number of basic antifungal peptides, including human salivary histatin 5, a designed histatin analog designated dhvar4, and a peptide from frog skin, PGLa, are active against amphotericin B-resistant Candida albicans, Candida krusei, and Aspergillus fumigatus strains a...

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Main Authors: Helmerhorst, Eva J., Reijnders, Ingrid M., van ’t Hof, Wim, Simoons-Smit, Ina, Veerman, Enno C. I., Amerongen, Arie V. Nieuw
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: American Society for Microbiology 1999
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC89188/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10049295
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