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SUBMITTER: Teixeira C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7037561 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Teixeira Cátia C Ventura Cristina C Gomes José R B JRB Gomes Paula P Martins Filomena F
Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) 20200121 3
Tuberculosis, caused by <i>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</i> (<i>Mtb</i>), remains one of the top ten causes of death worldwide and the main cause of mortality from a single infectious agent. The upsurge of multi- and extensively-drug resistant tuberculosis cases calls for an urgent need to develop new and more effective antitubercular drugs. As the cinnamoyl scaffold is a privileged and important pharmacophore in medicinal chemistry, some studies were conducted to find novel cinnamic acid derivati ...[more]