Editorial: Drug Re-purposing for the Treatment of Bacterial and Viral Infections

Front Cell Infect Microbiol. 2019 Nov 13:9:387. doi: 10.3389/fcimb.2019.00387. eCollection 2019.

Authors

Rodolfo García-Contreras¹, Thomas K Wood², Maria Tomás³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico.
² Department of Chemical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States.
³ Department of Microbiology, Instituto de Investigación Biomédica, Complejo Universitario a Coruña, Universidad de a Coruña, A Coruña, Spain.

No abstract available

Keywords: anthelmintic; anti-tumoral; anti-virulence; antimicrobial peptides; antiprotozoal; drug libraries; phages.

Publication types

Editorial
Introductory Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Anti-Bacterial Agents / pharmacology
Anti-Bacterial Agents / therapeutic use*
Antiviral Agents / pharmacology
Antiviral Agents / therapeutic use*
Bacterial Infections / drug therapy*
Bacterial Infections / microbiology
Drug Repositioning*
Humans
Virus Diseases / drug therapy*
Virus Diseases / virology

Substances

Anti-Bacterial Agents
Antiviral Agents