Acinetobacter baumannii Antibiotic Resistance Mechanisms

I Kyriakidis, E Vasileiou, ZD Pana, A Tragiannidis - Pathogens, 2021 - mdpi.com
Acinetobacter baumannii is a Gram-negative ESKAPE microorganism that poses a threat to
public health by causing severe and invasive (mostly nosocomial) infections linked with high …

Antibiotic resistance and persistence—Implications for human health and treatment perspectives

M Huemer, S Mairpady Shambat, SD Brugger… - EMBO …, 2020 - embopress.org
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and persistence are associated with an elevated risk of
treatment failure and relapsing infections. They are thus important drivers of increased …

Review on plant antimicrobials: a mechanistic viewpoint

B Khameneh, M Iranshahy, V Soheili… - … Resistance & Infection …, 2019 - Springer
Microbial resistance to classical antibiotics and its rapid progression have raised serious
concern in the treatment of infectious diseases. Recently, many studies have been directed …

A review on occurrence and spread of antibiotic resistance in wastewaters and in wastewater treatment plants: mechanisms and perspectives

C Uluseker, KM Kaster, K Thorsen, D Basiry… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
This paper reviews current knowledge on sources, spread and removal mechanisms of
antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in microbial communities of wastewaters, treatment …

Global Epidemiology and Mechanisms of Resistance of Acinetobacter baumannii-calcoaceticus Complex

M Castanheira, RE Mendes… - Clinical Infectious …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Acinetobacter baumannii-calcoaceticus complex is the most commonly identified species in
the genus Acinetobacter and it accounts for a large percentage of nosocomial infections …

Metallo-β-lactamases in the age of multidrug resistance: from structure and mechanism to evolution, dissemination, and inhibitor design

G Bahr, LJ Gonzalez, AJ Vila - Chemical reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Antimicrobial resistance is one of the major problems in current practical medicine. The
spread of genes coding for resistance determinants among bacteria challenges the use of …

Bacterial resistance to antimicrobial agents

MF Varela, J Stephen, M Lekshmi, M Ojha, N Wenzel… - Antibiotics, 2021 - mdpi.com
Bacterial pathogens as causative agents of infection constitute an alarming concern in the
public health sector. In particular, bacteria with resistance to multiple antimicrobial agents …

Global colistin use: a review of the emergence of resistant Enterobacterales and the impact on their genetic basis

U Binsker, A Käsbohrer… - FEMS Microbiology …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The dramatic global rise of MDR and XDR Enterobacterales in human medicine forced
clinicians to the reintroduction of colistin as last-resort drug. Meanwhile, colistin is used in …

Mechanisms of antimicrobial resistance in ESKAPE pathogens

S Santajit, N Indrawattana - BioMed research international, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The ESKAPE pathogens (Enterococcus faecium, Staphylococcus aureus, Klebsiella
pneumoniae, Acinetobacter baumannii, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Enterobacter …

Convergence of Biofilm Formation and Antibiotic Resistance in Acinetobacter baumannii Infection

S Roy, G Chowdhury, AK Mukhopadhyay… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Acinetobacter baumannii (A. baumannii) is a leading cause of nosocomial infections as this
pathogen has certain attributes that facilitate the subversion of natural defenses of the …