Fluoroquinolone resistance: mechanisms, impact on bacteria, and role in evolutionary success

LS Redgrave, SB Sutton, MA Webber… - Trends in microbiology, 2014 - cell.com
Quinolone and fluoroquinolone antibiotics are potent, broad-spectrum agents commonly
used to treat a range of infections. Resistance to these agents is multifactorial and can be via …

Quinolones: from antibiotics to autoinducers

S Heeb, MP Fletcher, SR Chhabra… - FEMS microbiology …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Since quinine was first isolated, animals, plants and microorganisms producing a wide
variety of quinolone compounds have been discovered, several of which possess …

Efflux-mediated antimicrobial resistance

K Poole - Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, 2005 - academic.oup.com
Antibiotic resistance continues to plague antimicrobial chemotherapy of infectious disease.
And while true biocide resistance is as yet unrealized, in vitro and in vivo episodes of …

Efflux pumps as antimicrobial resistance mechanisms

K Poole - Annals of medicine, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
Antibiotic resistance continues to hamper antimicrobial chemotherapy of infectious disease,
and while biocide resistance outside of the laboratory is as yet unrealized, in vitro and in …

Mechanism of action of and resistance to quinolones

A Fàbrega, S Madurga, E Giralt… - Microbial biotechnology, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Fluoroquinolones are an important class of wide‐spectrum antibacterial agents. The first
quinolone described was nalidixic acid, which showed a narrow spectrum of activity. The …

Molecular mechanism of topoisomerase poisoning by the peptide antibiotic albicidin

E Michalczyk, K Hommernick, I Behroz, M Kulike… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The peptide antibiotic albicidin is a DNA topoisomerase inhibitor with low-nanomolar
bactericidal activity towards fluoroquinolone-resistant Gram-negative pathogens. However …

[HTML][HTML] Antimicrobial drug use and resistance in Europe

N Van De Sande-Bruinsma, H Grundmann… - Emerging infectious …, 2008 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Our study confronts the use of antimicrobial agents in ambulatory care with the resistance
trends of 2 major pathogens, Streptococcus pneumoniae and Escherichia coli, in 21 …

Metabolic regulation of antibiotic resistance

JL Martínez, F Rojo - FEMS microbiology reviews, 2011 - academic.oup.com
It is generally assumed that antibiotics and resistance determinants are the task forces of a
biological warfare in which each resistance determinant counteracts the activity of a specific …

Increased multi-drug resistant Escherichia coli from hospitals in Khartoum state, Sudan

ME Ibrahim, NE Bilal, ME Hamid - African health sciences, 2012 - ajol.info
Background: Multidrug-resistant Escherichia coli (MDR E. coli) has become a major public
health concern in Sudan and many countries, causing failure in treatment with consequent …

Genetic architecture of intrinsic antibiotic susceptibility

HS Girgis, AK Hottes, S Tavazoie - PloS one, 2009 - journals.plos.org
Background Antibiotic exposure rapidly selects for more resistant bacterial strains, and both
a drug's chemical structure and a bacterium's cellular network affect the types of mutations …