Bacterial antibiotic resistance: the most critical pathogens

G Mancuso, A Midiri, E Gerace, C Biondo - Pathogens, 2021 - mdpi.com
Antibiotics have made it possible to treat bacterial infections such as meningitis and
bacteraemia that, prior to their introduction, were untreatable and consequently fatal …

[HTML][HTML] Prevalence of ESKAPE pathogens in the environment: Antibiotic resistance status, community-acquired infection and risk to human health

J Denissen, B Reyneke, M Waso-Reyneke… - International journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The ESKAPE (Enterococcus faecium, Staphylococcus aureus, Klebsiella
pneumoniae, Acinetobacter baumannii, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Enterobacter spp.) …

Identification of antimicrobial peptides from the human gut microbiome using deep learning

Y Ma, Z Guo, B Xia, Y Zhang, X Liu, Y Yu, N Tang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The human gut microbiome encodes a large variety of antimicrobial peptides (AMPs), but
the short lengths of AMPs pose a challenge for computational prediction. Here we combined …

Molecular Mechanisms of Drug Resistance in Staphylococcus aureus

B Mlynarczyk-Bonikowska, C Kowalewski… - International journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
This paper discusses the mechanisms of S. aureus drug resistance including:(1)
introduction.(2) resistance to beta-lactam antibiotics, with particular emphasis on the mec …

Antimicrobial peptides: an update on classifications and databases

A Bin Hafeez, X Jiang, PJ Bergen, Y Zhu - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are distributed across all kingdoms of life and are an
indispensable component of host defenses. They consist of predominantly short cationic …

Pathogenesis of pneumonia and acute lung injury

ME Long, RK Mallampalli, JC Horowitz - Clinical Science, 2022 - portlandpress.com
Pneumonia and its sequelae, acute lung injury, present unique challenges for pulmonary
and critical care healthcare professionals, and these challenges have recently garnered …

Combination of pre-adapted bacteriophage therapy and antibiotics for treatment of fracture-related infection due to pandrug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae

A Eskenazi, C Lood, J Wubbolts, M Hites… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
A 30-year-old bombing victim with a fracture-related pandrug-resistant Klebsiella
pneumoniae infection after long-term (> 700 days) antibiotic therapy is treated with a pre …

Role of Efflux Pumps on Antimicrobial Resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

AB Lorusso, JA Carrara, CDN Barroso, FF Tuon… - International journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Antimicrobial resistance is an old and silent pandemic. Resistant organisms emerge in
parallel with new antibiotics, leading to a major global public health crisis over time …

A new era of antibiotics: the clinical potential of antimicrobial peptides

K Browne, S Chakraborty, R Chen… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Antimicrobial resistance is a multifaceted crisis, imposing a serious threat to global health.
The traditional antibiotic pipeline has been exhausted, prompting research into alternate …

Antimicrobial peptides: Structure, mechanism, and modification

N Chen, C Jiang - European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 2023 - Elsevier
From the 1940s to the 1960s, the discovery of antibiotics held substantial promise for the
treatment of bacterial infection, and it was also widely used in food, agriculture, and other …