Analysis of the clinical pipeline of treatments for drug-resistant bacterial infections: despite progress, more action is needed

MS Butler, V Gigante, H Sati, S Paulin… - Antimicrobial agents …, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
There is an urgent global need for new strategies and drugs to control and treat multidrug-
resistant bacterial infections. In 2017, the World Health Organization (WHO) released a list of …

Resistance-proof antimicrobial drug discovery to combat global antimicrobial resistance threat

A Upadhayay, J Ling, D Pal, Y Xie, FF Ping… - Drug Resistance …, 2023 - Elsevier
Drug resistance is well-defined as a serious problem in our living world. To survive,
microbes develop defense strategies against antimicrobial drugs. Drugs exhibit less or no …

Neurite Outgrowth-Inducing Drimane-Type Sesquiterpenoids Isolated from Cultures of the Polypore Abundisporus violaceus MUCL 56355

WC Sum, SS Ebada, M Kirchenwitz… - Journal of Natural …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Abundisporin A (1), together with seven previously undescribed drimane sesquiterpenes
named abundisporins B–H (2–8), were isolated from a polypore, Abundisporus violaceus …

[HTML][HTML] A comprehensive overview of the antibiotics approved in the last two decades: retrospects and prospects

Z Shi, J Zhang, L Tian, L Xin, C Liang, X Ren, M Li - Molecules, 2023 - mdpi.com
Due to the overuse of antibiotics, bacterial resistance has markedly increased to become a
global problem and a major threat to human health. Fortunately, in recent years, various new …

Development and research progress of anti-drug resistant bacteria drugs

X Cui, Y Lü, C Yue - Infection and drug resistance, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Bacterial resistance has become increasingly serious because of the widespread use and
abuse of antibiotics. In particular, the emergence of multidrug-resistant bacteria has posed a …

[HTML][HTML] Tackling the outer membrane: facilitating compound entry into Gram-negative bacterial pathogens

D Saxena, R Maitra, R Bormon, M Czekanska… - npj Antimicrobials and …, 2023 - nature.com
Emerging resistance to all available antibiotics highlights the need to develop new
antibiotics with novel mechanisms of action. Most of the currently used antibiotics target …

[HTML][HTML] Biosynthesis of pleuromutilin congeners using an Aspergillus oryzae expression platform

F Alberti, K Khairudin, JA Davies, S Sangmalee… - Chemical …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Pleuromutilin is an antibiotic diterpenoid made by Clitopilus passeckerianus and related
fungi, and it is the progenitor of a growing class of semi-synthetic antibiotics used in …

[HTML][HTML] Lefamulin: a new hope in the field of community-acquired bacterial pneumonia

S Adhikary, MK Duggal, S Nagendran… - Current Pharmacology …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Community-acquired bacterial pneumonia (CABP) continues to
be a worldwide health concern since it is the major cause of mortality and hospitalisation …

ADENet: a novel network-based inference method for prediction of drug adverse events

Z Yu, Z Wu, W Li, G Liu, Y Tang - Briefings in Bioinformatics, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Identification of adverse drug events (ADEs) is crucial to reduce human health risks and
improve drug safety assessment. With an increasing number of biological and medical data …

[HTML][HTML] Mechanism of staphylococcal resistance to clinically relevant antibiotics

D Brdová, T Ruml, J Viktorová - Drug Resistance Updates, 2024 - Elsevier
Staphylococcus aureus, a notorious pathogen with versatile virulence, poses a significant
challenge to current antibiotic treatments due to its ability to develop resistance mechanisms …