The human cathelicidin antimicrobial peptide LL-37 as a potential treatment for polymicrobial infected wounds.
Diabetic patients often have ulcers on their lower-limbs that are infected by multiple biofilm-forming genera of bacteria, and the elimination of the biofilm has proven highly successful in resolving such wounds in patients. To that end, antimicrobial peptides have shown potential as a new anti-biof...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2013-07-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Immunology |
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Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fimmu.2013.00143/full |