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Nitric Oxide-Releasing Nanoparticles Are Similar to Efinaconazole in Their Capa...
Costa-Orlandi, Caroline Barcelos [UNESP]; Martinez, Luis R.; Bila, Níura Madalena [UNESP]; Friedman, Joel M.; Friedman, Adam J.Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-29T08:31:22Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2021-07-15; Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES); Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP); Filamentous fungi such as Trichophyton rubrum and T. mentagrophytes, the main causative agents of onychomycosis, have been recognized as biofilm-forming microorganisms. Nit...
Alcohol Enhances Acinetobacter baumannii-Associated Pneumonia and Systemic Diss...
Gandhi, Jay A.; Ekhar, Vaibhav V.; Asplund, Melissa B.; Abdulkareem, Asan F.; Ahmadi, Mohammed; Coelho, Carolina; Martinez, Luis R.Acinetobacter baumannii (Ab) is a common cause of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) in chronic alcoholics in tropical and sub-tropical climates and associated with a .50% mortality rate. Using a murine model of alcohol (EtOH) administration, we demonstrated that EtOH enhances Ab-mediated pneumonia leading to systemic infection. Although EtOH did not affect neutrophil recruitment to the lungs of treated mice, i...