Antibiotic resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa–Mechanisms, epidemiology and evolution

J Botelho, F Grosso, L Peixe - Drug resistance updates, 2019 - Elsevier
Antibiotics are powerful drugs used in the treatment of bacterial infections. The inappropriate
use of these medicines has driven the dissemination of antibiotic resistance (AR) in most …

[HTML][HTML] Network resilience

X Liu, D Li, M Ma, BK Szymanski, HE Stanley, J Gao - Physics Reports, 2022 - Elsevier
Many systems on our planet shift abruptly and irreversibly from the desired state to an
undesired state when forced across a “tipping point”. Some examples are mass extinctions …

An optogenetic toolkit for light-inducible antibiotic resistance

MB Sheets, N Tague, MJ Dunlop - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
Antibiotics are a key control mechanism for synthetic biology and microbiology. Resistance
genes are used to select desired cells and regulate bacterial populations, however their use …

Accelerated evolution of bacterial antibiotic resistance through early emerged stress responses driven by photocatalytic oxidation

H Yin, G Li, X Chen, W Wang, PK Wong, H Zhao… - Applied Catalysis B …, 2020 - Elsevier
Here, we found that the photocatalysis (PC) could elicit bacterial stress response that
transiently mediate some mechanism such as efflux pumps, biofilm formation, increased …

Antibiotic resilience: a necessary concept to complement antibiotic resistance?

G Carvalho, C Forestier… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Resilience is the capacity of systems to recover their initial state or functions after a
disturbance. The concepts of resilience and resistance are complementary in ecology and …

Enhancing bioreactor arrays for automated measurements and reactive control with ReacSight

F Bertaux, S Sosa-Carrillo, V Gross, A Fraisse… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Small-scale, low-cost bioreactors provide exquisite control of environmental parameters of
microbial cultures over long durations. Their use is gaining popularity in quantitative systems …

Land and deep-sea mining: the challenges of comparing biodiversity impacts

S Katona, D Paulikas, S Ali, M Clarke, E Ilves… - Biodiversity and …, 2023 - Springer
The term 'biodiversity,'while casually used in practice, is a complicated subject to measure,
interpret, contextualize, and compare. Yet the possible advent of deep-sea mining in the mid …

Breaching bacterial biofilm barriers: Efficient combinatorial theranostics for multidrug-resistant bacterial biofilms with a novel penetration-enhanced AIEgen probe

X Liu, D Fan, X Feng, Y Zheng… - … Applied Materials & …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The formation of microbial biofilms is acknowledged as a major virulence factor in a range of
persistent local infections. Failures to remove biofilms with antibiotics foster the emergence …

Ecological life strategies of microbes in response to antibiotics as a driving factor in soils

U Sharma, D Rawat, P Mukherjee, F Farooqi… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Antibiotics as a selection pressure driving the evolution of soil microbial communities is not
well understood. Since microbial functions govern ecosystem services, an ecological …

Uncharted waters: the unintended impacts of residual chlorine on water quality and biofilms

KE Fish, N Reeves-McLaren, S Husband… - npj Biofilms and …, 2020 - nature.com
Disinfection residuals in drinking water protect water quality and public heath by limiting
planktonic microbial regrowth during distribution. However, we do not consider the …