1. Thompson A (2007) Sick future: as species disappear, human disease may spike. Livescience. http://www.livescience.com/1537-sick-future-species-disappear-human-disease-spike.html . Accessed 29 Jan 2016
2. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (2008) Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). https://www.niaid.nih.gov/topics/antimicrobialresistance/examples/mrsa/Pages/history.aspx . Accessed 29 Jan 2016
3. Gallo RL, Victor N (2003) Endogenous production of antimicrobial peptides in innate immunity and human disease. Curr Allergy Asthma Rep 3:402–409
4. van der Weerden NL, Bleackley MR, Anderson MA (2013) Properties and mechanisms of action of naturally occurring antifungal peptides. Cell Mol Life Sci 70:3545–3570
5. Mishra B, Wang G (2012) The importance of amino acid composition in natural AMPs: an evolutional, structural, and functional perspective. In: Roninson MW, Hutchinon AT, Donnelly S (eds) Antimicrobial peptides: utility players in innate immunity. Frontier Media SA, Switzerland