Rescuing the last-line polymyxins: achievements and challenges

SC Nang, MAK Azad, T Velkov, QT Zhou, J Li - Pharmacological reviews, 2021 - ASPET
Antibiotic resistance is a major global health challenge and, worryingly, several key Gram
negative pathogens can become resistant to most currently available antibiotics. Polymyxins …

Multitarget approaches against multiresistant superbugs

DA Gray, M Wenzel - ACS Infectious Diseases, 2020 - ACS Publications
Despite efforts to develop new antibiotics, antibacterial resistance still develops too fast for
drug discovery to keep pace. Often, resistance against a new drug develops even before it …

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J Oliveira, WC Reygaert - 2019 - europepmc.org
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Increased use of antibiotics in the intensive care unit during coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in a Brazilian hospital

ARO Silva, DR Salgado, LPN Lopes… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Background: Microbial drug resistance is one of the biggest public health problems.
Antibiotic consumption is an essential factor for the emergence and spread of multiresistant …

Recent advances and perspectives in the design and development of polymyxins

F Rabanal, Y Cajal - Natural product reports, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: 1947-early 2017, particularly from 2005-early 2017 The rise of bacterial
pathogens with acquired resistance to almost all available antibiotics is becoming a serious …

Mesoporous silica nanoparticles carrying multiple antibiotics provide enhanced synergistic effect and improved biocompatibility

Z Gounani, MA Asadollahi, JN Pedersen… - Colloids and Surfaces B …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Treatment of polymicrobial infections requires combination therapy with drugs that
have different antimicrobial spectra and possibly work in synergy. However, the different …

Discovery of antibiotics that selectively kill metabolically dormant bacteria

EJ Zheng, JA Valeri, IW Andrews, A Krishnan… - Cell Chemical …, 2024 - cell.com
There is a need to discover and develop non-toxic antibiotics that are effective against
metabolically dormant bacteria, which underlie chronic infections and promote antibiotic …

Technology transfer of the microphysiological systems: a case study of the human proximal tubule tissue chip

C Sakolish, EJ Weber, EJ Kelly, J Himmelfarb… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
The adoption of a new technology into basic research, and industrial and clinical settings
requires rigorous testing to build confidence in the reproducibility, reliability, robustness, and …

Mechanisms of antimicrobial-induced nephrotoxicity in children

KJ Downes, M Hayes, JC Fitzgerald… - Journal of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Drug-induced nephrotoxicity is responsible for 20% to 60% of cases of acute kidney injury in
hospitalized patients and is associated with increased morbidity and mortality in both …

[HTML][HTML] Human kidney on a chip assessment of polymyxin antibiotic nephrotoxicity

EJ Weber, KA Lidberg, L Wang, TK Bammler… - JCI insight, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Drug-induced kidney injury, largely caused by proximal tubular intoxicants, limits
development and clinical use of new and approved drugs. Assessing preclinical …