TY - JOUR AU - Amaral, Eduardo P. AU - Conceição, Elisabete L. AU - Costa, Diego L. AU - Rocha, Michael S. AU - Marinho, Jamocyr M. AU - Cordeiro-Santos, Marcelo AU - D’Império-Lima, Maria Regina AU - Barbosa, Theolis AU - Sher, Alan AU - Andrade, Bruno B. PY - 2016 DA - 2016/10/28 TI - N-acetyl-cysteine exhibits potent anti-mycobacterial activity in addition to its known anti-oxidative functions JO - BMC Microbiology SP - 251 VL - 16 IS - 1 AB - Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection is thought to induce oxidative stress. N-acetyl-cysteine (NAC) is widely used in patients with chronic pulmonary diseases including tuberculosis due to its mucolytic and anti-oxidant activities. Here, we tested whether NAC exerts a direct antibiotic activity against mycobacteria. SN - 1471-2180 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12866-016-0872-7 DO - 10.1186/s12866-016-0872-7 ID - Amaral2016 ER -