Antimicrobial stewardship: Fighting antimicrobial resistance and protecting global public health

MAA Majumder, S Rahman, D Cohall… - Infection and drug …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a serious threat to global public health. It increases
morbidity and mortality, and is associated with high economic costs due to its health care …

[HTML][HTML] Multifunctional gold nanoparticles for improved diagnostic and therapeutic applications: a review

NRS Sibuyi, KL Moabelo, AO Fadaka, S Meyer… - Nanoscale Research …, 2021 - Springer
The medical properties of metals have been explored for centuries in traditional medicine for
the treatment of infections and diseases and still practiced to date. Platinum-based drugs are …

Detection and characterization of bacterial biofilms and biofilm-based sensors

R Funari, AQ Shen - ACS sensors, 2022 - ACS Publications
Microbial biofilms have caused serious concerns in healthcare, medical, and food industries
because of their intrinsic resistance against conventional antibiotics and cleaning …

Landscape of mobile genetic elements and their antibiotic resistance cargo in prokaryotic genomes

S Khedkar, G Smyshlyaev, I Letunic… - Nucleic acids …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Prokaryotic Mobile Genetic Elements (MGEs) such as transposons, integrons,
phages and plasmids, play important roles in prokaryotic evolution and in the dispersal of …

[HTML][HTML] Roles of Two-Component Systems in Pseudomonas aeruginosa Virulence

M Sultan, R Arya, KK Kim - International journal of molecular sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an opportunistic pathogen that synthesizes and secretes a
wide range of virulence factors. P. aeruginosa poses a potential threat to human health …

[HTML][HTML] Insights in the development and uses of alternatives to antibiotic growth promoters in poultry and swine production

MRT Rahman, I Fliss, E Biron - Antibiotics, 2022 - mdpi.com
The overuse and misuse of antibiotics has contributed to the rise and spread of multidrug-
resistant bacteria. To address this global public health threat, many countries have restricted …

Antibiotic resistance crisis: Challenges and imperatives

NA Church, JL McKillip - Biologia, 2021 - Springer
Antibiotic resistance is one of the greatest worldwide challenges to modern medicine, and
society at large, and one of the least appreciated by practitioners and the lay community …

[HTML][HTML] A parallel and silent emerging pandemic: Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) amid COVID-19 pandemic

S Rehman - Journal of Infection and Public Health, 2023 - Elsevier
World is in the middle of the pandemic (COVID-19), caused by SARS-COV-2 virus, which is
a significant global health crisis after Spanish influenza in the beginning of 20th century …

[HTML][HTML] High prevalence of antibiotic resistance in pathogenic foodborne bacteria isolated from bovine milk

S Hassani, MH Moosavy, SN Gharajalar, SA Khatibi… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
This study aimed to investigate the prevalence of foodborne pathogenic bacteria in bovine
milk, their antibiogram phenotype, and the carriage of antibiotic resistance genes. Raw …

[HTML][HTML] Bloodstream infections in adult patients with malignancy, epidemiology, microbiology, and risk factors associated with mortality and multi-drug resistance

A Amanati, S Sajedianfard, S Khajeh… - BMC infectious …, 2021 - Springer
Background This study aimed to investigate the epidemiology, microbiology, and risk factors
associated with mortality and multi-drug resistance bacterial bloodstream infections (BSIs) …