The emergence of multi-drug resistance makes bacterial infection a major threat to public
health and economy. The formation of bacterial biofilms is one of the main reasons of …

Infections are one of the most significant complications of neonates, especially those born
preterm, with sepsis as one of the principal causes of mortality. Coagulase-negative …

The potentiation of antibiotics is a promising strategy for combatting antibiotic-
resistant/tolerant bacteria. Herein, we report that a 5-min sublethal heat shock enhances the …

Recalcitrant infections pose a serious challenge by prolonging antibiotic therapies and
contributing to the spread of antibiotic resistance, thereby threatening the successful …

Following the discovery of streptomycin from Streptomyces griseus in the 1940s by Selman
Waksman and colleagues, aminoglycosides were first used to treat tuberculosis and then …

Ethnopharmacological relevance According to the Compendium of Materia Medica, honey
has been used as a traditional medicine in treatment against mucositis, tinea, hemorrhoids …

Persister cells are dormant variants of regular cells that are multidrug tolerant and have
heterogeneous phenotypes; these cells are a potential threat to hosts because they can …

Potentiation of traditional antibiotics is of significance for combating antibiotic-resistant
bacteria that have become a severe threat to human and animal health. Here, we report that …

Cryptic prophages are not genomic junk but instead enable cells to combat myriad stresses
as an active stress response. How these phage fossils affect persister cell resuscitation has …

Although persistence may be the most prevalent growth state for prokaryotes, since almost
all bacteria and archaeal cells are starving, the persister field is muddled. This has occurred …