Progress in alternative strategies to combat antimicrobial resistance: Focus on antibiotics

J Murugaiyan, PA Kumar, GS Rao, K Iskandar… - Antibiotics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Antibiotic resistance, and, in a broader perspective, antimicrobial resistance (AMR),
continues to evolve and spread beyond all boundaries. As a result, infectious diseases have …

Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs): A promising class of antimicrobial compounds

M Erdem Büyükkiraz, Z Kesmen - Journal of applied …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are compounds, which have inhibitory activity against
microorganisms. In the last decades, AMPs have become powerful alternative agents that …

Applications of lysozyme, an innate immune defense factor, as an alternative antibiotic

P Ferraboschi, S Ciceri, P Grisenti - Antibiotics, 2021 - mdpi.com
Lysozyme is a~ 14 kDa protein present in many mucosal secretions (tears, saliva, and
mucus) and tissues of animals and plants, and plays an important role in the innate …

The value of antimicrobial peptides in the age of resistance

M Magana, M Pushpanathan, AL Santos… - The lancet infectious …, 2020 - thelancet.com
Accelerating growth and global expansion of antimicrobial resistance has deepened the
need for discovery of novel antimicrobial agents. Antimicrobial peptides have clear …

Coronavirus infections and immune responses

G Li, Y Fan, Y Lai, T Han, Z Li, P Zhou… - Journal of medical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Coronaviruses (CoVs) are by far the largest group of known positive‐sense RNA viruses
having an extensive range of natural hosts. In the past few decades, newly evolved …

Antimicrobial peptides, conventional antibiotics, and their synergistic utility for the treatment of drug‐resistant infections

Y Zhu, W Hao, X Wang, J Ouyang… - Medicinal Research …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs), also known as host defense peptides (HDPs), are important
effector immune defense molecules in multicellular organisms. AMPs exert their …

The demand for new antibiotics: antimicrobial peptides, nanoparticles, and combinatorial therapies as future strategies in antibacterial agent design

A León-Buitimea, CR Garza-Cárdenas… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The inappropriate use of antibiotics and an inadequate control of infections have led to the
emergence of resistant strains which represent a major threat to public health and the global …

Antimicrobial peptides—Mechanisms of action, antimicrobial effects and clinical applications

J Talapko, T Meštrović, M Juzbašić, M Tomas, S Erić… - Antibiotics, 2022 - mdpi.com
The growing emergence of antimicrobial resistance represents a global problem that not
only influences healthcare systems but also has grave implications for political and …

Combating implant infections: shifting focus from bacteria to host

S Amin Yavari, SM Castenmiller… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The widespread use of biomaterials to support or replace body parts is increasingly
threatened by the risk of implant‐associated infections. In the quest for finding novel anti …

Flourishing antibacterial strategies for osteomyelitis therapy

X Wang, M Zhang, T Zhu, Q Wei, G Liu… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Osteomyelitis is a destructive disease of bone tissue caused by infection with pathogenic
microorganisms. Because of the complex and long‐term abnormal conditions, osteomyelitis …