Uncovering the mechanisms of Acinetobacter baumannii virulence

CM Harding, SW Hennon, MF Feldman - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2018 - nature.com
Acinetobacter baumannii is a nosocomial pathogen that causes ventilator-associated as
well as bloodstream infections in critically ill patients, and the spread of multidrug-resistant …

Clinical and economic impact of antibiotic resistance in developing countries: A systematic review and meta-analysis

RC Founou, LL Founou, SY Essack - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Introduction Despite evidence of the high prevalence of antibiotic resistant infections in
developing countries, studies on the clinical and economic impact of antibiotic resistance …

Estimating the burden of antimicrobial resistance: a systematic literature review

NR Naylor, R Atun, N Zhu, K Kulasabanathan… - … Resistance & Infection …, 2018 - Springer
Background Accurate estimates of the burden of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) are needed
to establish the magnitude of this global threat in terms of both health and cost, and to …

Acinetobacter baumannii Resistance: A Real Challenge for Clinicians

R Vázquez-López, SG Solano-Gálvez… - Antibiotics, 2020 - mdpi.com
Acinetobacter baumannii (named in honor of the American bacteriologists Paul and Linda
Baumann) is a Gram-negative, multidrug-resistant (MDR) pathogen that causes nosocomial …

Multidrug-resistant bacteria and alternative methods to control them: an overview

R Vivas, AAT Barbosa, SS Dolabela… - Microbial Drug …, 2019 - liebertpub.com
Antibiotic resistance is one of the greatest challenges in the health system nowadays,
representing a serious problem for public health. Initially, antibiotic-resistant strains were …

Clinical and pathophysiological overview of Acinetobacter infections: a century of challenges

D Wong, TB Nielsen, RA Bonomo… - Clinical microbiology …, 2017 - Am Soc Microbiol
Acinetobacter is a complex genus, and historically, there has been confusion about the
existence of multiple species. The species commonly cause nosocomial infections …

Comparative genomics of Acinetobacter baumannii and therapeutic bacteriophages from a patient undergoing phage therapy

M Liu, A Hernandez-Morales, J Clark, T Le… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract In 2016, a 68-year-old patient with a disseminated multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter
baumannii infection was successfully treated using lytic bacteriophages. Here we report the …

Accurate identification of clinically important Acinetobacter spp.: an update

S Vijayakumar, I Biswas, B Veeraraghavan - Future science OA, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Acinetobacter species have emerged as one of the most clinically important pathogens. The
phenotypic techniques which are currently available are insufficient in accurately identifying …

Delineating the Immuno-Dominant Antigenic Vaccine Peptides Against gacS-Sensor Kinase in Acinetobacter baumannii: An in silico Investigational Approach

AS Smiline Girija - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Objectives To predict the novel vaccine peptide candidates against gacS protein involved
with the citrate utilization in the two-component system of A. baumannii-associated virulence …

Fabrication of silver nanoparticles employing the cyanobacterium Spirulina platensis and its bactericidal effect against opportunistic nosocomial pathogens of the …

F Ameen, MMS Abdullah, AA Al-Homaidan… - Journal of Molecular …, 2020 - Elsevier
There are several biomimetic approaches to synthesize silver nanoparticles (AgNPs). The
present investigation describes a solitary method for the synthesis of AgNPs in one-pot by …