Antibiotics have transformed modern medicine. They are essential for treating infectious
diseases and enable vital therapies and procedures. However, despite this success, their …

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 …

Antimicrobial-resistant ESKAPE (E nterococcus faecium, S taphylococcus aureus, K
lebsiella pneumoniae, A cinetobacter baumannii, P seudomonas aeruginosa, and E …

Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs), also known as host defense peptides (HDPs), are important
effector immune defense molecules in multicellular organisms. AMPs exert their …

Antibiotic resistance is arguably the biggest current threat to global health. An increasing
number of infections are becoming harder or almost impossible to treat, carrying high …

Misuse and overuse of antibiotics have contributed in the last decades to a phenomenon
known as antibiotic resistance which is currently considered one of the principal threats to …

Antimicrobial resistance threatens a resurgence of life-threatening bacterial infections and
the potential demise of many aspects of modern medicine. Despite intensive drug discovery …

Chronic and recurrent bacterial infections are frequently associated with the formation of
biofilms on biotic or abiotic materials that are composed of mono-or multi-species cultures of …

The use of life-saving antibiotics has long been plagued by the ability of pathogenic bacteria
to acquire and develop an array of antibiotic resistance mechanisms. The sum of these …

The rapid emergence and dissemination of multidrug-resistant (MDR) bacterial pathogens
pose a serious threat to global healthcare. One particular concern is the carbapenem …