EMOLLIENT FORMULATIONS CONTAINING ANTISEPTICS REDUCE EFFECTIVELY THE LEVEL OF STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS ON SKIN

Fabrizio Spada, Tanya M Barnes, Kerryn A Greive Research & Development, Ego Pharmaceuticals, Braeside, Victoria, AustraliaCorrespondence: Fabrizio SpadaEgo Pharmaceuticals Pty Ltd, 21-31 Malcolm Road, Braeside, Victoria 3195, AustraliaTel +61 39 586 8874Fax +61 39 580 7647Email fabrizio.spada@egopharm.comBackground: Increased skin colonization

BackgroundMalignant melanoma is an extremely aggressive and metastatic cancer, and highly resistant to conventional therapies.Signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 (STAT3) signaling promotes melanoma development and progression, which has been validated as an effective target in melanoma treatment.Natural naphthoquinone shikonin is rep