Author(s): Jorge, Paula Alexandra Silva ; Pereira, Maria Olívia ; Lourenço, Anália Maria Garcia
Date: 2012
Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/1822/75798
Origin: RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho
Project/scholarship: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/5876-PPCDTI/113196/PT ;
[Excerpt] Introduction Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are nowadays importantly recognized, mostly due to the raise of infections caused by multi-resistant pathogens, and have been hailed as a potential solution to the shortage of novel antibiotics, due to their general unspecific mechanism of action which impairs the acquiring of resistance.
The financial support from IBB-CEB, Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT) and European Community fund FEDER, through Program COMPETE, in the ambit of the FCT PTDC/SAU-SAP/113196/2009/FCOMP-01-0124-FEDER-016012 are gratefully acknowledged.
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