The minimum inhibitory concentration of antibiotics: Methods, interpretation, clinical relevance

B Kowalska-Krochmal, R Dudek-Wicher - Pathogens, 2021 - mdpi.com
Inefficiency of medical therapies used in order to cure patients with bacterial infections
requires not only to actively look for new therapeutic strategies but also to carefully select …

Water depollution using metal-organic frameworks-catalyzed advanced oxidation processes: A review

VK Sharma, M Feng - Journal of hazardous materials, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper presents a review on the environmental applications of metal-organic
frameworks (MOFs), which are inorganic-organic hybrid highly porous crystalline materials …

Antibiotic resistance—the need for global solutions

R Laxminarayan, A Duse, C Wattal… - The Lancet infectious …, 2013 - thelancet.com
The causes of antibiotic resistance are complex and include human behaviour at many
levels of society; the consequences affect everybody in the world. Similarities with climate …

The role of bacterial biofilms in chronic infections

T Bjarnsholt - Apmis, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Acute infections caused by pathogenic bacteria have been studied extensively for well over
100 years. These infections killed millions of people in previous centuries, but they have …

The multifaceted roles of antibiotics and antibiotic resistance in nature

S Sengupta, MK Chattopadhyay… - Frontiers in …, 2013 - frontiersin.org
Antibiotics are chemotherapeutic agents, which have been a very powerful tool in the clinical
management of bacterial diseases since the 1940s. However, benefits offered by these …

Overcoming the rising incidence and evolving mechanisms of antibiotic resistance by novel drug delivery approaches–an overview

CKC Lai, RWY Ng, SSY Leung, M Hui, M Ip - Advanced Drug Delivery …, 2022 - Elsevier
Antimicrobial resistance is a normal evolutionary process for microorganisms. Antibiotics
exerted accelerated selective pressure that hasten bacterial resistance through mutation …

Strategies to minimize antibiotic resistance

CR Lee, IH Cho, BC Jeong, SH Lee - International journal of …, 2013 - mdpi.com
Antibiotic resistance can be reduced by using antibiotics prudently based on guidelines of
antimicrobial stewardship programs (ASPs) and various data such as pharmacokinetic (PK) …

[HTML][HTML] Essential oils, a new horizon in combating bacterial antibiotic resistance

PSX Yap, BC Yiap, HC Ping… - The open microbiology …, 2014 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
For many years, the battle between humans and the multitudes of infection and disease
causing pathogens continues. Emerging at the battlefield as some of the most significant …

Bacterial diversity and antibiotic resistance in water habitats: searching the links with the human microbiome

I Vaz-Moreira, OC Nunes… - FEMS microbiology …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Water is one of the most important bacterial habitats on Earth. As such, water represents
also a major way of dissemination of bacteria between different environmental …

Inorganic nanoparticles engineered to attack bacteria

KP Miller, L Wang, BC Benicewicz… - Chemical Society …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Antibiotics were once the golden bullet to constrain infectious bacteria. However, the rapid
and continuing emergence of antibiotic resistance (AR) among infectious microbial …