Heteroresistance: a cause of unexplained antibiotic treatment failure?

VI Band, DS Weiss - PLoS pathogens, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Antibiotic resistance is a major and increasing healthcare problem that threatens many of
the achievements of modern medicine. Transplants, chemotherapy, and survival of …

Environmental and genetic modulation of the phenotypic expression of antibiotic resistance

D Hughes, DI Andersson - FEMS microbiology reviews, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Antibiotic resistance can be acquired by mutation or horizontal transfer of a resistance gene,
and generally an acquired mechanism results in a predictable increase in phenotypic …

New insights in to the intrinsic and acquired drug resistance mechanisms in mycobacteria

MJ Nasiri, M Haeili, M Ghazi, H Goudarzi… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Infectious diseases caused by clinically important Mycobacteria continue to be an important
public health problem worldwide primarily due to emergence of drug resistance crisis. In …

Drug resistance, fitness and compensatory mutations in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

AKA Emane, X Guo, HE Takiff, S Liu - Tuberculosis, 2021 - Elsevier
For tuberculosis to be eradicated, the transmission of Multi-Drug-Resistant and eXtensively
Drug Resistant strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MDR and XDR-TB) must be …

Drug resistance mechanisms and drug susceptibility testing for tuberculosis

P Miotto, Y Zhang, DM Cirillo, WC Yam - Respirology, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Tuberculosis (TB) caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) is the deadliest infectious
disease and the associated global threat has worsened with the emergence of drug …

Evaluation of whole-genome sequence method to diagnose resistance of 13 anti-tuberculosis drugs and characterize resistance genes in clinical multi-drug …

X Chen, G He, S Wang, S Lin, J Chen… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Background: Whole-genome sequencing (WGS) is a viable and financially feasible tool for
timely and comprehensive diagnosis of drug resistance in developed countries. With the …

De novo emergence of genetically resistant mutants of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from the persistence phase cells formed against antituberculosis drugs in vitro

J Sebastian, S Swaminath, RR Nair… - Antimicrobial agents …, 2017 - Am Soc Microbiol
Bacterial persisters are a subpopulation of cells that can tolerate lethal concentrations of
antibiotics. However, the possibility of the emergence of genetically resistant mutants from …

DNA-Dependent Binding of Nargenicin to DnaE1 Inhibits Replication in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

MD Chengalroyen, MK Mason, A Borsellini… - ACS Infectious …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Natural products provide a rich source of potential antimicrobials for treating infectious
diseases for which drug resistance has emerged. Foremost among these diseases is …

FLASH-TB: an application of next-generation CRISPR to detect drug resistant tuberculosis from direct sputum

TTB Tram, VTN Ha, LPT Trieu, PM Ashton… - Journal of Clinical …, 2023 - Am Soc Microbiol
Offering patients with tuberculosis (TB) an optimal and timely treatment regimen depends on
the rapid detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) drug resistance from clinical …

[HTML][HTML] Molecular mechanism of a triazole-containing inhibitor of Mycobacterium tuberculosis DNA gyrase

A Gedeon, E Yab, A Dinut, E Sadowski, E Capton… - Iscience, 2024 - cell.com
Antimicrobial resistance remains a persistent and pressing public health concern. Here, we
describe the synthesis of original triazole-containing inhibitors targeting the DNA gyrase, a …