The effects of antibiotics on the microbiome throughout development and alternative approaches for therapeutic modulation

A Langdon, N Crook, G Dantas - Genome medicine, 2016 - Springer
The widespread use of antibiotics in the past 80 years has saved millions of human lives,
facilitated technological progress and killed incalculable numbers of microbes, both …

Anti-virulence strategies to combat bacteria-mediated disease

DA Rasko, V Sperandio - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2010 - nature.com
Antibiotic resistance is one of the greatest challenges of the twenty-first century. However,
the increasing understanding of bacterial pathogenesis and intercellular communication has …

Targeting virulence: a new paradigm for antimicrobial therapy

AE Clatworthy, E Pierson, DT Hung - Nature chemical biology, 2007 - nature.com
Clinically significant antibiotic resistance has evolved against virtually every antibiotic
deployed. Yet the development of new classes of antibiotics has lagged far behind our …

The type III secretion injectisome

GR Cornelis - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2006 - nature.com
The type III secretion injectisome is a complex nanomachine that allows bacteria to deliver
protein effectors across eukaryotic cellular membranes. In recent years, significant progress …

The biology and future prospects of antivirulence therapies

L Cegelski, GR Marshall, GR Eldridge… - Nature Reviews …, 2008 - nature.com
The emergence and increasing prevalence of bacterial strains that are resistant to available
antibiotics demand the discovery of new therapeutic approaches. Targeting bacterial …

Type III secretion systems and disease

B Coburn, I Sekirov, BB Finlay - Clinical microbiology reviews, 2007 - Am Soc Microbiol
Type III secretion systems (T3SSs) are complex bacterial structures that provide gram-
negative pathogens with a unique virulence mechanism enabling them to inject bacterial …

Anti-virulence strategies to target bacterial infections

S Mühlen, P Dersch - How to Overcome the Antibiotic Crisis: Facts …, 2016 - Springer
Resistance of important bacterial pathogens to common antimicrobial therapies and the
emergence of multidrug-resistant bacteria are increasing at an alarming rate and constitute …

Fighting bacterial infections—future treatment options

J Fernebro - Drug Resistance Updates, 2011 - Elsevier
This review summarizes ongoing research aimed at finding novel drugs as alternatives to
traditional antibiotics. Anti-virulence approaches, phage therapy and therapeutic antibodies …

New strategies for combating multidrug-resistant bacteria

GD Wright, AD Sutherland - Trends in molecular medicine, 2007 - cell.com
Antibiotic resistance is a problem that continues to challenge the healthcare sector. In
particular, multidrug resistance is now common in familiar pathogens such as …

Engineered single-domain antibodies with high protease resistance and thermal stability

G Hussack, T Hirama, W Ding, R MacKenzie, J Tanha - PloS one, 2011 - journals.plos.org
The extreme pH and protease-rich environment of the upper gastrointestinal tract is a major
obstacle facing orally-administered protein therapeutics, including antibodies. Through …