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Norgestimate inhibits staphylococcal biofilm formation and resensitizes methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus to β-lactam antibiotics

Formation of bacterial biofilms on medical devices can cause severe or fatal infectious diseases. In particular, biofilm-associated infections caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus are difficult to eradicate because the biofilm is strongly resistant to antibiotics and the host immune...

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Autores principales: Yoshii, Yutaka, Okuda, Ken-ichi, Yamada, Satomi, Nagakura, Mari, Sugimoto, Shinya, Nagano, Tetsuo, Okabe, Takayoshi, Kojima, Hirotatsu, Iwamoto, Takeo, Kuwano, Kazuyoshi, Mizunoe, Yoshimitsu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5522392/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28758016
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41522-017-0026-1