Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) or host defense peptides protect the host against various
pathogens such as yeast, fungi, viruses and bacteria. AMPs also display immunomodulatory …

Due to the alarming developing rate of multidrug-resistant bacterial pathogens, the
development and modification of antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are unprecedentedly active …

Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are the natural antibiotics recognized for their potent
antibacterial and wound healing properties. Bare AMPs have limited activity following topical …

The recent outbreaks of infectious diseases caused by multidrug-resistant pathogens have
sounded a piercing alarm for the need of new effective antimicrobial agents to guard public …

Alarming data about increasing resistance to conventional antibiotics are reported, while at
the same time the development of new antibiotics is stagnating. Skin and soft tissue …

The transition of antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) from the laboratory to market has been
severely hindered by their instability toward proteases in biological systems. In the present …

Indwelling and implanted medical devices are subject to contamination by microbial
pathogens during surgery, insertion or injection, and ongoing use, often resulting in severe …

Life-threatening infectious diseases are on their way to cause a worldwide crisis, as treating
them effectively is becoming increasingly difficult due to the emergence of antibiotic resistant …

Abstract Development of peptide drugs is challenging but also quite rewarding. Five
blockbuster peptide drugs are currently on the market, and six new peptides received first …

Due to rapidly increasing resistance development against conventional antibiotics, finding
novel approaches for the treatment of infections has emerged as a key health issue …