Epidemiology and treatment of multidrug-resistant and extensively drug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections

JP Horcajada, M Montero, A Oliver, L Sorlí… - Clinical microbiology …, 2019 - Am Soc Microbiol
In recent years, the worldwide spread of the so-called high-risk clones of multidrug-resistant
or extensively drug-resistant (MDR/XDR) Pseudomonas aeruginosa has become a public …

It's Not Easy Being Green: A Narrative Review on the Microbiology, Virulence and Therapeutic Prospects of Multidrug-Resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa

P Behzadi, Z Baráth, M Gajdács - Antibiotics, 2021 - mdpi.com
Pseudomonas aeruginosa is the most frequent cause of infection among non-fermenting
Gram-negative bacteria, predominantly affecting immunocompromised patients, but its …

Pseudomonas aeruginosa epidemic high-risk clones and their association with horizontally-acquired β-lactamases: 2020 update

E del Barrio-Tofiño, C López-Causapé… - International journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Pseudomonas aeruginosa global clones associated with multidrug-resistant (MDR) and
extensively drug-resistant (XDR) phenotypes, denominated high-risk clones, are a growing …

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 …

World Health Organization report: current crisis of antibiotic resistance

A Talebi Bezmin Abadi, AA Rizvanov, T Haertlé… - BioNanoScience, 2019 - Springer
Antibiotic resistance is the most challenging clinical and public health problem. Despite of
living in the era of novel technologies in biomedical research, many of untreatable infectious …

The challenge of efflux-mediated antibiotic resistance in Gram-negative bacteria

XZ Li, P Plésiat, H Nikaido - Clinical microbiology reviews, 2015 - Am Soc Microbiol
The global emergence of multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria is a growing threat to
antibiotic therapy. The chromosomally encoded drug efflux mechanisms that are ubiquitous …

The increasing threat of Pseudomonas aeruginosa high-risk clones

A Oliver, X Mulet, C López-Causapé, C Juan - Drug Resistance Updates, 2015 - Elsevier
The increasing prevalence of chronic and hospital-acquired infections produced by
multidrug-resistant (MDR) or extensively drug-resistant (XDR) Pseudomonas aeruginosa …

Epidemiology and mechanisms of resistance of extensively drug resistant Gram-negative bacteria

EM Eichenberger, JT Thaden - Antibiotics, 2019 - mdpi.com
Antibiotic resistance has increased markedly in gram-negative bacteria over the last two
decades, and in many cases has been associated with increased mortality and healthcare …

Antimicrobial resistance and virulence: a successful or deleterious association in the bacterial world?

A Beceiro, M Tomás, G Bou - Clinical microbiology reviews, 2013 - Am Soc Microbiol
Hosts and bacteria have coevolved over millions of years, during which pathogenic bacteria
have modified their virulence mechanisms to adapt to host defense systems. Although the …

Convergent evolution and adaptation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa within patients with cystic fibrosis

RL Marvig, LM Sommer, S Molin, HK Johansen - Nature genetics, 2015 - nature.com
Little is known about how within-host evolution compares between genotypically different
strains of the same pathogenic species. We sequenced the whole genomes of 474 …