Insights into Acinetobacter baumannii: A Review of Microbiological, Virulence, and Resistance Traits in a Threatening Nosocomial Pathogen

C Ayoub Moubareck, D Hammoudi Halat - Antibiotics, 2020 - mdpi.com
Being a multidrug-resistant and an invasive pathogen, Acinetobacter baumannii is one of
the major causes of nosocomial infections in the current healthcare system. It has been …

Convergence of Biofilm Formation and Antibiotic Resistance in Acinetobacter baumannii Infection

S Roy, G Chowdhury, AK Mukhopadhyay… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Acinetobacter baumannii (A. baumannii) is a leading cause of nosocomial infections as this
pathogen has certain attributes that facilitate the subversion of natural defenses of the …

Pandrug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria: a systematic review of current epidemiology, prognosis and treatment options

S Karakonstantis, EI Kritsotakis… - Journal of Antimicrobial …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Background The literature on the epidemiology, mortality and treatment of pandrug-resistant
(PDR) Gram-negative bacteria (GNB) is scarce, scattered and controversial. Objectives To …

Morphologic design of nanostructures for enhanced antimicrobial activity

FAZ Sayed, NG Eissa, Y Shen, DA Hunstad… - Journal of …, 2022 - Springer
Despite significant progress in synthetic polymer chemistry and in control over tuning the
structures and morphologies of nanoparticles, studies on morphologic design of …

Intrathecal antibacterial and antifungal therapies

R Nau, C Blei, H Eiffert - Clinical microbiology reviews, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
Intrathecal administration of anti-infectives is indicated in central nervous system infections
by multiresistant pathogens when drugs that can reach adequate cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) …

Bacteriostatic potential of melatonin: therapeutic standing and mechanistic insights

F He, X Wu, Q Zhang, Y Li, Y Ye, P Li, S Chen… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Diseases caused by pathogenic bacteria in animals (eg, bacterial pneumonia, meningitis
and sepsis) and plants (eg, bacterial wilt, angular spot and canker) lead to high prevalence …

Comparative analysis of carbapenemases, RND family efflux pumps and biofilm formation potential among Acinetobacter baumannii strains with different …

Y Zhang, B Fan, Y Luo, Z Tao, Y Nie, Y Wang… - BMC Infectious …, 2021 - Springer
Aim This study has conducted a comparative analysis of common carbapenemases
harboring, the expression of resistance-nodulation-cell division (RND) family efflux pumps …

Interaction of lytic phage T1245 with antibiotics for enhancement of antibacterial and anti-biofilm efficacy against multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii

R Soontarach, OF Nwabor, SP Voravuthikunchai - Biofouling, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Biofilms associated with multidrug-resistant (MDR) Acinetobacter baumannii on medical
devices remain a big clinical problem. Antibiotic susceptibility tests were performed with …

Efflux Pump Activity and Mutations Driving Multidrug Resistance in Acinetobacter baumannii at a Tertiary Hospital in Pretoria, South Africa

ND Nogbou, GM Nkawane, K Ntshane… - International Journal …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Acinetobacter baumannii (A. baumannii) has developed several resistance mechanisms.
The bacteria have been reported as origin of multiple outbreaks. This study aims to …

Bacterial ventriculoperitoneal shunt infections: changing trends in antimicrobial susceptibility, a 7-year retrospective study from Pakistan

A Akram Asif, K Mahmood, S Riaz, T McHugh… - … Resistance & Infection …, 2023 - Springer
Background Ventriculoperitoneal (VP) shunt infections in adults represent a severe
complication and make treatment more challenging. Therefore, drug susceptibility patterns …