The Journal of antibiotics 70(8) 907-910 2017年7月 [査読有り]
Vancomycin is a widely used clinical drug to treat for infection by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. Some patients show a weak response to vancomycin treatment. We previously reported that β-lactams increase the susceptibility to vanco...
Drug discoveries & therapeutics 11(1) 1-5 2017年3月 [査読有り]
The silkworm infection model has the potential to replace conventional animal models for evaluation of the efficacy and toxicity of investigational antifungal agents. Silkworms are relatively inexpensive, can be simply grown in large numbers and c...
Drug discoveries & therapeutics 11(1) 30-34 2017年3月 [査読有り]
Leuconostoc carnosum #7-2, L. gelidum #4-2, and L. mesenteroides 8/11-3, which were isolated from fermented plant foods, are lactic acid bacteria. We previously reported that these bacteria are functional lactic acid bacteria whose innate immunity...