Antibacterial Effects of Glycyrrhetinic Acid and Its Derivatives on Staphylococcus aureus.

Staphylococcus aureus is a major pathogen in humans and causes serious problems due to antibiotic resistance. We investigated the antimicrobial effect of glycyrrhetinic acid (GRA) and its derivatives against 50 clinical S. aureus strains, including 18 methicillin-resistant strains. The minimum inhib...

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Main Authors: Kentaro Oyama, Miki Kawada-Matsuo, Yuichi Oogai, Tetsuya Hayashi, Norifumi Nakamura, Hitoshi Komatsuzawa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5098735?pdf=render