Global Challenge of Multidrug-Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii

F Perez, AM Hujer, KM Hujer, BK Decker… - Antimicrobial agents …, 2007 - Am Soc Microbiol
We may soon be facing the end of the “antibiotic era.” The initial and seemingly unstoppable
success of antibiotics, the fruit of human ingenuity, has been countered by an escalation of …

Porins, efflux pumps and multidrug resistance in Acinetobacter baumannii

J Vila, S Martí… - Journal of antimicrobial …, 2007 - academic.oup.com
Acinetobacter baumannii is an opportunistic pathogen, causing infections mainly in patients
in intensive care units where the extensive use of antimicrobial agents can select for the …

Antifungal therapy: Novel drug delivery strategies driven by new targets

S Wu, R Song, T Liu, C Li - Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
In patients with compromised immunity, invasive fungal infections represent a significant
cause of mortality. Given the limited availability and drawbacks of existing first-line antifungal …

Vaccination with Outer Membrane Complexes Elicits Rapid Protective Immunity to Multidrug-Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii

MJ McConnell, J Domínguez-Herrera… - Infection and …, 2011 - Am Soc Microbiol
Acinetobacter baumannii causes pneumonias, bacteremias, and skin and soft tissue
infections, primarily in the hospitalized setting. The incidence of infections caused by A …

The cost of resistance to colistin in Acinetobacter baumannii: a proteomic perspective

M Fernández‐Reyes, M Rodríguez‐Falcón… - …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Colistin resistance in Acinetobacter baumannii, a pathogen of clinical concern, was induced
in the susceptible strain ATCC 19606 by growth under increasing pressure of the antibiotic …

Growth of Acinetobacter baumannii in Pellicle Enhanced the Expression of Potential Virulence Factors

S Marti, Y Nait Chabane, S Alexandre, L Coquet, J Vila… - PloS one, 2011 - journals.plos.org
Background Interestingly, Acinetobacter baumannii presents an enhanced capacity to form
biofilms (also named pellicles) at the air-liquid interface as compared to the other …

Global Comparison of the Membrane Subproteomes between a Multidrug-Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii Strain and a Reference Strain

A Siroy, P Cosette, D Seyer… - Journal of proteome …, 2006 - ACS Publications
Acinetobacter baumannii causes severe infections in compromised patients. We combined
SDS-PAGE, two-dimensional gel electrophoresis and mass spectrometry (LC− MS/MS and …

Comparative Proteomics of Inner Membrane Fraction from Carbapenem-Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii with a Reference Strain

V Tiwari, J Vashistt, A Kapil, RR Moganty - PloS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Acinetobacter baumannii has been identified by the Infectious Diseases Society of America
as one of the six pathogens that cause majority of hospital infections. Increased resistance of …

Association of Acinetobacter baumannii EF‐Tu with Cell Surface, Outer Membrane Vesicles, and Fibronectin

SF Dallo, B Zhang, J Denno, S Hong… - The Scientific World …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
A conundrum has long lingered over association of cytosol elongation factor Tu (EF‐Tu) with
bacterial surface. Here we investigated it with Acinetobacter baumannii, an emerging …

Response of Pseudomonas putida KT2440 to phenol at the level of membrane proteome

C Roma-Rodrigues, PM Santos, D Benndorf… - Journal of …, 2010 - Elsevier
This study led to the extension and refinement of our current model for the global response
of Pseudomonas putida KT2440 to phenol by getting insights into the adaptive response …