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 …

Multidrug efflux pumps: structure, function and regulation

D Du, X Wang-Kan, A Neuberger… - Nature Reviews …, 2018 - nature.com
Infections arising from multidrug-resistant pathogenic bacteria are spreading rapidly
throughout the world and threaten to become untreatable. The origins of resistance are …

Targeting the holy triangle of quorum sensing, biofilm formation, and antibiotic resistance in pathogenic bacteria

RV Sionov, D Steinberg - Microorganisms, 2022 - mdpi.com
Chronic and recurrent bacterial infections are frequently associated with the formation of
biofilms on biotic or abiotic materials that are composed of mono-or multi-species cultures of …

Structure, assembly, and function of tripartite efflux and type 1 secretion systems in gram-negative bacteria

I Alav, J Kobylka, MS Kuth, KM Pos, M Picard… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Tripartite efflux pumps and the related type 1 secretion systems (T1SSs) in Gram-negative
organisms are diverse in function, energization, and structural organization. They form …

Bacterial multidrug efflux pumps at the frontline of antimicrobial resistance: an overview

L Huang, C Wu, H Gao, C Xu, M Dai, L Huang, H Hao… - Antibiotics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Multidrug efflux pumps function at the frontline to protect bacteria against antimicrobials by
decreasing the intracellular concentration of drugs. This protective barrier consists of a …

[HTML][HTML] Understanding the mechanism of bacterial biofilms resistance to antimicrobial agents

S Singh, SK Singh, I Chowdhury… - The open microbiology …, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
A biofilm is a group of microorganisms, that causes health problems for the patients with
indwelling medical devices via attachment of cells to the surface matrix. It increases the …

Role of bacterial efflux pumps in biofilm formation

I Alav, JM Sutton, KM Rahman - Journal of Antimicrobial …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Efflux pumps are widely implicated in antibiotic resistance because they can extrude the
majority of clinically relevant antibiotics from within cells to the extracellular environment …

A macromolecular approach to eradicate multidrug resistant bacterial infections while mitigating drug resistance onset

W Chin, G Zhong, Q Pu, C Yang, W Lou… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Polymyxins remain the last line treatment for multidrug-resistant (MDR) infections. As
polymyxins resistance emerges, there is an urgent need to develop effective antimicrobial …

Acinetobacter baumannii biofilms: effects of physicochemical factors, virulence, antibiotic resistance determinants, gene regulation, and future antimicrobial treatments

EC Eze, HY Chenia, ME El Zowalaty - Infection and drug …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Acinetobacter baumannii is a leading cause of nosocomial infections due to its increased
antibiotic resistance and virulence. The ability of A. baumannii to form biofilms contributes to …

[HTML][HTML] An overview of Acinetobacter baumannii pathogenesis: Motility, adherence and biofilm formation

HJ Mea, PVC Yong, EH Wong - Microbiological research, 2021 - Elsevier
The Gram-negative opportunistic pathogen Acinetobacter baumannii has gain notoriety in
recent decades, primarily due to its propensity to cause nosocomial infections in critically ill …