Bacteriophages as alternatives to antibiotics in clinical care

D Romero-Calle, R Guimarães Benevides… - Antibiotics, 2019 - mdpi.com
Antimicrobial resistance is increasing despite new treatments being employed. With a
decrease in the discovery rate of novel antibiotics, this threatens to take humankind back to …

[HTML][HTML] Alcohol-associated liver disease: A review on its pathophysiology, diagnosis and drug therapy

V Subramaniyan, S Chakravarthi, R Jegasothy… - Toxicology reports, 2021 - Elsevier
One of the global burdens of health care is an alcohol-associated liver disease (ALD) and
liver-related death which is caused due to acute or chronic consumption of alcohol. Chronic …

Dysbiotic events in gut microbiota: impact on human health

S Schippa, MP Conte - Nutrients, 2014 - mdpi.com
The human body is colonized by a large number of microbes coexisting peacefully with their
host. The most colonized site is the gastrointestinal tract (GIT). More than 70% of all the …

The preclinical and clinical progress of bacteriophages and their lytic enzymes: the parts are easier than the whole

K Abdelkader, H Gerstmans, A Saafan, T Dishisha… - Viruses, 2019 - mdpi.com
The therapeutic potential of phages has been considered since their first identification more
than a century ago. The evident concept of using a natural predator to treat bacterial …

[PDF][PDF] Bacterial characteristics of importance for recurrent urinary tract infections caused by Escherichia coli

K Ejrnæs - Dan Med Bull, 2011 - content.ugeskriftet.dk
Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are among the most common bacterial infectious diseases
encountered in clinical practice and account for significant morbidity and high medical costs …

Potential for bacteriophage endolysins to supplement or replace antibiotics in food production and clinical care

MJ Love, D Bhandari, RCJ Dobson, C Billington - Antibiotics, 2018 - mdpi.com
There is growing concern about the emergence of bacterial strains showing resistance to all
classes of antibiotics commonly used in human medicine. Despite the broad range of …

Efficacy of Fidaxomicin Versus Vancomycin as Therapy for Clostridium difficile Infection in Individuals Taking Concomitant Antibiotics for Other Concurrent Infections

KM Mullane, MA Miller, K Weiss… - Clinical infectious …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Background. Treatment guidelines recommend stopping all implicated antibiotics at the
onset of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI), but many individuals have persistent or new …

Oral antibiotic use and early-onset colorectal cancer: findings from a case-control study using a national clinical database

R McDowell, S Perrott, P Murchie, C Cardwell… - British Journal of …, 2022 - nature.com
Background Antibiotic-induced gut dysbiosis has been associated with colorectal cancer
(CRC) in older adults. This study will investigate whether an association exists between …

Antibiotic and acid-suppression medications during early childhood are associated with obesity

CM Stark, A Susi, J Emerick, CM Nylund - Gut, 2019 - gut.bmj.com
Objective Gut microbiota alterations are associated with obesity. Early exposure to
medications, including acid suppressants and antibiotics, can alter gut biota and may …

Enterobactin-Mediated Delivery of β-Lactam Antibiotics Enhances Antibacterial Activity against Pathogenic Escherichia coli

T Zheng, EM Nolan - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2014 - ACS Publications
The design, synthesis, and characterization of enterobactin–antibiotic conjugates, hereafter
Ent-Amp/Amx, where the β-lactam antibiotics ampicillin (Amp) and amoxicillin (Amx) are …