A mini review of antibacterial properties of ZnO nanoparticles

SV Gudkov, DE Burmistrov, DA Serov… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The development of antibiotic resistance of bacteria is one of the most pressing problems in
world health care. One of the promising ways to overcome microbial resistance to antibiotics …

Antibiotic resistance: a rundown of a global crisis

B Aslam, W Wang, MI Arshad, M Khurshid… - Infection and drug …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
The advent of multidrug resistance among pathogenic bacteria is imperiling the worth of
antibiotics, which have previously transformed medical sciences. The crisis of antimicrobial …

[HTML][HTML] An overview of the antimicrobial resistance mechanisms of bacteria

WC Reygaert - AIMS microbiology, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Resistance to antimicrobial agents has become a major source of morbidity and mortality
worldwide. When antibiotics were first introduced in the 1900's, it was thought that we had …

Antibiotic resistance genes in bacteria: Occurrence, spread, and control

Z Jian, L Zeng, T Xu, S Sun, S Yan… - Journal of basic …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The production and use of antibiotics are becoming increasingly common worldwide, and
the problem of antibiotic resistance is increasing alarmingly. Drug‐resistant infections …

Review on multiple facets of drug resistance: a rising challenge in the 21st century

M Saha, A Sarkar - Journal of xenobiotics, 2021 - mdpi.com
With the advancements of science, antibiotics have emerged as an amazing gift to the
human and animal healthcare sectors for the treatment of bacterial infections and other …

Recent advances in design of antimicrobial peptides and polypeptides toward clinical translation

Y Jiang, Y Chen, Z Song, Z Tan, J Cheng - Advanced Drug Delivery …, 2021 - Elsevier
The recent outbreaks of infectious diseases caused by multidrug-resistant pathogens have
sounded a piercing alarm for the need of new effective antimicrobial agents to guard public …

Molecular mechanisms of antibiotic resistance

JMA Blair, MA Webber, AJ Baylay, DO Ogbolu… - Nature reviews …, 2015 - nature.com
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria that are difficult or impossible to treat are becoming increasingly
common and are causing a global health crisis. Antibiotic resistance is encoded by several …

Ca2+-Daptomycin targets cell wall biosynthesis by forming a tripartite complex with undecaprenyl-coupled intermediates and membrane lipids

F Grein, A Müller, KM Scherer, X Liu, KC Ludwig… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The lipopeptide daptomycin is used as an antibiotic to treat severe infections with gram-
positive pathogens, such as methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and drug …

Intrinsic antibiotic resistance: mechanisms, origins, challenges and solutions

G Cox, GD Wright - International Journal of Medical Microbiology, 2013 - Elsevier
The intrinsic antibiotic resistome is a naturally occurring phenomenon that predates
antibiotic chemotherapy and is present in all bacterial species. In addition to the intrinsic …

Discovery and development of new antibacterial drugs: learning from experience?

N Jackson, L Czaplewski… - Journal of Antimicrobial …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Antibiotic (antibacterial) resistance is a serious global problem and the need for new
treatments is urgent. The current antibiotic discovery model is not delivering new agents at a …