Researchers are looking for alternatives to standard antibiotics, such as natural compounds with antibacterial action, due to the problem of multidrug-resistant pathogens including bacteria, fungi, and yeast, as well as the prohibition on using antibiotics as growth promoters in feed. Natural antimicrobial peptides and compounds isolated from animal secretions and some insect venoms have inspired…
Read more
The problem of multidrug-resistant pathogens including bacteria, fungi, and yeast, as well as the ban on using antibiotics as growth promoters in feed, has spurred researchers to look for natural antibacterial chemicals as alternatives to standard antibiotics. Natural antimicrobial peptides and compounds derived from animal secretions and some insect venoms have inspired a lot of…
Read more
The steady decrease in the therapeutic effectiveness of available pharmaceutical products due to the spread of antimicrobial resistance underscores the need to create new groups of antimicrobial agents to treat infectious diseases. This urgency has inspired researchers to discover a relatively new and sustainable tool called host-defense peptides, also called antimicrobial peptides (AMPs), to fight…
Read more