Sentences with phrase «target mycobacteria»
Prof. Aidan Doherty hopes this discovery will aid in the designing of new antibiotics that could help target mycobacteria, particularly during their latent phase.
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With further investigation of these protective mechanisms, it is hoped that this research will pave the way for the development of new drugs to more successfully target mycobacteria.»??
Not exact matches
Two of these enzymes are already being studies as potential drug targets; one against Mycobacterium tuberculosis and another against another type of worm.
Recombinant vaccines rely on one or more antigens — proteins associated with the target bacterium — that boost an immune response; in this case Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which causes TB.
Devastating though it sounds, this does present an excellent target for killing off an infecting mycobacterium.
Her work focuses on identifying and validating protein targets of small molecules capable of killing Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) DprE1, an essential isomerase for the biosynthesis of the mycobacterial cell wall, is a validated target for tuberculosis (TB) drug development.