Antibiotics are essential drugs used to treat pathogenic bacteria, but their prolonged use
contributes to the development and spread of drug-resistant microorganisms. Antibiotic …

Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) or host defense peptides protect the host against various
pathogens such as yeast, fungi, viruses and bacteria. AMPs also display immunomodulatory …

The rapid development of microbial resistance to conventional antibiotics has accelerated
efforts to find anti-infectives with a novel mode-of-action, which are less prone to bacterial …

Antibiotic resistance is projected as one of the greatest threats to human health in the future
and hence alternatives are being explored to combat resistance. Antimicrobial peptides …

Antimicrobial peptides hold promise to supplement small molecules antibiotics and combat
the multidrug resistant microbes. There are however technical hurdles towards the clinical …

Current research has demonstrated that small cationic amphipathic peptides have strong
potential not only as antimicrobials, but also as antibiofilm agents, immune modulators, and …

The severe infection is becoming a significant health problem which threaten the lives of
patients and the safety and economy of society. In the way of finding new strategy …

The discovery of antibiotics marked a golden age in the revolution of human medicine.
However, decades later, bacterial infections remain a global healthcare threat, and a return …

Among other health related issues, the rising concerns on drug resistance led to look for
alternative pharmaceutical drugs that are effective both against infectious and noninfectious …

The treatment of infected bone defects is a major clinical challenge, which requires the
development of scaffolds to simultaneously eliminate infection and provide a suitable …