TY - JOUR AU - Pachón-Ibáñez, María Eugenia AU - Smani, Younes AU - Pachón, Jerónimo AU - Sánchez-Céspedes, Javier PY - 2017 DO - 10.1093/femsre/fux012 UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10668/11209 T2 - FEMS microbiology reviews AB - Infectious diseases caused by bacteria, viruses or fungi are among the leading causes of death worldwide. The emergence of drug-resistance mechanisms, especially among bacteria, threatens the efficacy of all current antimicrobial agents, some of them... LA - en KW - antibacterial KW - antifungal KW - antiviral KW - cathelicidin KW - defensins KW - infectious diseases KW - Anti-Infective Agents KW - Antimicrobial Cationic Peptides KW - Bacteria KW - Bacterial Infections KW - Defensins KW - Endotoxins KW - Exotoxins KW - Fungi KW - Humans KW - Microbial Sensitivity Tests KW - Mycoses KW - Virus Diseases KW - Viruses KW - Cathelicidins TI - Perspectives for clinical use of engineered human host defense antimicrobial peptides. TY - research article VL - 41 ER -