Natural antimicrobial peptide complexes in the fighting of antibiotic resistant biofilms: Calliphora vicina medicinal maggots.

Biofilms, sedimented microbial communities embedded in a biopolymer matrix cause vast majority of human bacterial infections and many severe complications such as chronic inflammatory diseases and cancer. Biofilms' resistance to the host immunity and antibiotics makes this kind of infection par...

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Main Authors: Natalia Gordya, Andrey Yakovlev, Anastasia Kruglikova, Dmitry Tulin, Evdokia Potolitsina, Tatyana Suborova, Domenico Bordo, Camillo Rosano, Sergey Chernysh
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5344439?pdf=render