Antimicrobial resistance and COVID-19: Intersections and implications

GM Knight, RE Glover, CF McQuaid, ID Olaru… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Before the coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic began, antimicrobial resistance (AMR)
was among the top priorities for global public health. Already a complex challenge, AMR …

Vulnerability of the industrialized microbiota

JL Sonnenburg, ED Sonnenburg - Science, 2019 - science.org
BACKGROUND The collection of trillions of microbes inhabiting the human gut, called the
microbiome or microbiota, has captivated the biomedical research community for the past …

[HTML][HTML] Tackling antimicrobial resistance in the COVID-19 pandemic

H Getahun, I Smith, K Trivedi, S Paulin… - Bulletin of the World …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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Increasing consumption of antibiotics during the COVID-19 pandemic: implications for patient health and emerging anti-microbial resistance

SS Malik, S Mundra - Antibiotics, 2022 - mdpi.com
The emergence of COVID-19 infection led to the indiscriminate use of antimicrobials without
knowing their efficacy in treating the disease. The gratuitous use of antibiotics for COVID-19 …

[HTML][HTML] Strategies applied to modify structured and smooth surfaces: A step closer to reduce bacterial adhesion and biofilm formation

A Uneputty, A Dávila-Lezama, D Garibo… - Colloid and Interface …, 2022 - Elsevier
Nearly a century has passed since the discovery of the first antibiotics. With each passing
decade, more bacterial strains developed resistance towards existing antibiotics. Alternative …

Prevalence of bacterial coinfection and patterns of antibiotics prescribing in patients with COVID-19: A systematic review and meta-analysis

FS Alshaikh, B Godman, ON Sindi, RA Seaton, A Kurdi - PloS one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Background Evidence around prevalence of bacterial coinfection and pattern of antibiotic
use in COVID-19 is controversial although high prevalence rates of bacterial coinfection …

The urgent need for microbiology literacy in society

K Timmis, R Cavicchioli, JL Garcia, B Nogales… - Environmental …, 2019 - orbit.dtu.dk
Microbes and their activities have pervasive, remarkably profound and generally positive
effects on the functioning, and thus health and well-being, of human beings, the whole of the …

Shaping the subway microbiome through probiotic-based sanitation during the COVID-19 emergency: A pre–post case–control study

M D'Accolti, I Soffritti, F Bini, E Mazziga, C Cason… - Microbiome, 2023 - Springer
Background The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the extent to which the public
transportation environment, such as in subways, may be important for the transmission of …

Reducing healthcare-associated infections incidence by a probiotic-based sanitation system: A multicentre, prospective, intervention study

E Caselli, S Brusaferro, M Coccagna, L Arnoldo… - PLoS …, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Healthcare Associated Infections (HAI) are a global concern, further threatened by the
increasing drug resistance of HAI-associated pathogens. On the other hand, persistent …

Engineering microbial technologies for environmental sustainability: choices to make

W Verstraete, K Yanuka‐Golub, N Driesen… - Microbial …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Microbial technologies have provided solutions to key challenges in our daily lives for over a
century. In the debate about the ongoing climate change and the need for planetary …