Host Antimicrobial Peptides: The Promise of New Treatment Strategies against Tuberculosis

Tuberculosis (TB) continues to be a devastating infectious disease and remerges as a global health emergency due to an alarming rise of antimicrobial resistance to its treatment. Despite of the serious effort that has been applied to develop effective antitubercular chemotherapies, the potential of...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Javier Arranz-Trullén, Lu Lu, David Pulido, Sanjib Bhakta, Ester Boix
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-11-01
Series:Frontiers in Immunology
Subjects:
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fimmu.2017.01499/full