Clostridium
Related VFcategory: Exotoxin; Regulation
Target: Not determined
Drug effect: Targets two-component systems to interfere with signaling pathways thereby inhibiting virulence responses such as antibiotic resistance, toxin secretion and biofilm formation.
Max phase: Preclinical (in vitro)
Publication: Thanissery R, et al., 2018. A Small Molecule-Screening Pipeline to Evaluate the Therapeutic Potential of 2-Aminoimidazole Molecules Against Clostridium difficile. Front Microbiol 9:1206.