期刊: ACS INFECTIOUS DISEASES, 2021; 7 (5)
A wide range of synthetic polymers have been explored for antimicrobial activity. These materials usually contain both cationic and hydrophobic subuni......
期刊: ACS INFECTIOUS DISEASES, 2021; 7 (8)
Biofilms, structured communities of bacterial cells embedded in a self-produced extracellular matrix (ECM) which consists of proteins, polysaccharide ......
期刊: ACS INFECTIOUS DISEASES, 2021; 7 (6)
Arenaviruses are a large family of enveloped negative-strand RNA viruses that include several causative agents of severe hemorrhagic fevers. Currently......
期刊: ACS INFECTIOUS DISEASES, 2021; 7 (4)
The modulation of the interaction between macrophages and Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M.tb) through microRNA during M.tb infection is increasingly cap......
期刊: ACS INFECTIOUS DISEASES, 2021; 7 (8)
Bacteriophage endolysins (lysins, or murein hydrolases) are enzymes that bacteriophages utilize to degrade the cell wall peptidoglycans (PG) and subse......
期刊: ACS INFECTIOUS DISEASES, 2021; 7 (4)
Antibiotic resistance nowadays is spreading much faster than the introduction of new antibiotics into clinical practice. There is an urgent need for p......
期刊: ACS INFECTIOUS DISEASES, 2021; 7 (6)
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a fatal respiratory illness caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The identif......
期刊: ACS INFECTIOUS DISEASES, 2021; 7 (6)
With the aim of tackling the increasingly serious antimicrobial resistance and improving the clinical potential of AMPs, a facile de novo strategy was......
期刊: ACS INFECTIOUS DISEASES, 2021; 7 (6)
Biofilm formation and hemolysis induced by Staphylococcus aureus are closely related to pathogenicity. However, no drugs exist to inhibit biofilm form......
期刊: ACS INFECTIOUS DISEASES, 2021; 7 (4)
Meningitic Escherichia coli can infiltrate the central nervous system (CNS), consequently increasing the levels of proinflammatory cytokines and chemo......
期刊: ACS INFECTIOUS DISEASES, 2021; 7 (4)
The glyoxylate shunt is a pathway associated with the assimilation of fatty acids and is implicated in the resistance of M. tuberculosis (Mtb). Isocit......
期刊: ACS INFECTIOUS DISEASES, 2021; 7 (6)
SARS-CoV-2 infection begins with the association of its spike 1 (S1) protein with host angiotensin-converting enzyme-2 (ACE2). Targeting the interacti......
期刊: ACS INFECTIOUS DISEASES, 2021; 7 (6)
The SARS-CoV-2 outbreak that emerged at the end of 2019 has affected more than 58 million people with more than 1.38 million deaths and has had an inc......
期刊: ACS INFECTIOUS DISEASES, 2021; 7 (7)
OZ439 is a potent synthetic ozonide evaluated for the treatment of uncomplicated malaria. The metabolite profile of OZ439 was characterized in vitro u......
期刊: ACS INFECTIOUS DISEASES, 2021; 7 (3)
Pathogens utilize various mechanisms to escape host immunological surveillance, break down different tissue barriers, and cause infection. Sialylation......