Materials for restoring lost Activity: Old drugs for new bugs

N Pajares-Chamorro, ND Hammer… - Advanced Drug Delivery …, 2022 - Elsevier
The escalation of bacterial resistance to conventional medical antibiotics is a serious
concern worldwide. Improvements to current therapies are urgently needed to address this …

Combination of drugs: An effective approach for enhancing the efficacy of antibiotics to combat drug resistance

MSA Khan - Antibacterial Drug Discovery to Combat MDR: Natural …, 2019 - Springer
Currently available antibiotics have been effective in treating infectious diseases; however,
the development of resistance to these drugs has led to the emergence of new and the re …

Drug combinations: a strategy to extend the life of antibiotics in the 21st century

M Tyers, GD Wright - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2019 - nature.com
Antimicrobial resistance threatens a resurgence of life-threatening bacterial infections and
the potential demise of many aspects of modern medicine. Despite intensive drug discovery …

Combination therapies for combating antimicrobial resistance

MA Fischbach - Current opinion in microbiology, 2011 - Elsevier
New drug development strategies are needed to combat antimicrobial resistance. The object
of this perspective is to highlight one such strategy: treating infections with sets of drugs …

Drug repurposing as an alternative for the treatment of recalcitrant bacterial infections

A Rangel-Vega, LR Bernstein… - Frontiers in …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Bacterial infection remains one of the leading causes of death worldwide, and the options for
treating such infections are decreasing, due the rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. The …

Therapeutic strategies to combat antibiotic resistance

BD Brooks, AE Brooks - Advanced drug delivery reviews, 2014 - Elsevier
With multidrug resistant bacteria on the rise, new antibiotic approaches are required.
Although a number of new small molecule antibiotics are currently in the development …

Antibiotic resistance mitigation: the development of alternative general strategies

S NurhannaáRiduan - Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Antibiotic resistance has become one of the major, deadly threats to public health
worldwide. This paper highlights several recent works, which may initiate the development …

Rejuvenating the activity of usual antibiotics on resistant gram-negative bacteria: recent issues and perspectives

J Tabcheh, J Vergalli, A Davin-Régli… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Antibiotic resistance continues to evolve and spread beyond all boundaries, resulting in an
increase in morbidity and mortality for non-curable infectious diseases. Due to the failure of …

Multidrug evolutionary strategies to reverse antibiotic resistance

M Baym, LK Stone, R Kishony - Science, 2016 - science.org
BACKGROUND Antibiotics are among the most important tools in medicine, but their efficacy
is threatened by the evolution of resistance. Since the earliest days of antibiotics, resistance …

[HTML][HTML] Novel Approaches to the Treatment of Multidrug-Resistant Bacteria

P Pusparajah, V Letchumanan, BH Goh… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Multidrug-resistant (MDR) organisms constitute a major global health crisis with
antimicrobial resistance (AMR) being among the top ten global public health threats faced …