Klebsiella species: Taxonomy, hypervirulence and multidrug resistance

N Dong, X Yang, EWC Chan, R Zhang, S Chen - EBioMedicine, 2022‏ - thelancet.com
Members of the genus Klebsiella have rapidly evolved within the past decade, generating
organisms that simultaneously exhibit both multidrug resistance and hypervirulence (MDR …

Monitoring antibiotic resistance genes in wastewater treatment: Current strategies and future challenges

AQ Nguyen, HP Vu, LN Nguyen, Q Wang… - Science of the Total …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a growing threat to human and animal health. Progress in
molecular biology has revealed new and significant challenges for AMR mitigation given the …

Mobile genetic elements associated with antimicrobial resistance

SR Partridge, SM Kwong, N Firth… - Clinical microbiology …, 2018‏ - journals.asm.org
Strains of bacteria resistant to antibiotics, particularly those that are multiresistant, are an
increasing major health care problem around the world. It is now abundantly clear that both …

Completing bacterial genome assemblies with multiplex MinION sequencing

RR Wick, LM Judd, CL Gorrie… - Microbial …, 2017‏ - microbiologyresearch.org
Illumina sequencing platforms have enabled widespread bacterial whole genome
sequencing. While Illumina data is appropriate for many analyses, its short read length limits …

Duplicated antibiotic resistance genes reveal ongoing selection and horizontal gene transfer in bacteria

R Maddamsetti, Y Yao, T Wang, J Gao… - Nature …, 2024‏ - nature.com
Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) and gene duplication are often considered as separate
mechanisms driving the evolution of new functions. However, the mobile genetic elements …

A review of SHV extended-spectrum β-lactamases: neglected yet ubiquitous

A Liakopoulos, D Mevius, D Ceccarelli - Frontiers in microbiology, 2016‏ - frontiersin.org
β-lactamases are the primary cause of resistance to β-lactams among members of the family
Enterobacteriaceae. SHV enzymes have emerged in Enterobacteriaceae causing infections …

IS26 and the IS26 family: versatile resistance gene movers and genome reorganizers

CJ Harmer, RM Hall - Microbiology and molecular biology reviews, 2024‏ - journals.asm.org
In Gram-negative bacteria, the insertion sequence IS 26 is highly active in disseminating
antibiotic resistance genes. IS 26 can recruit a gene or group of genes into the mobile gene …

Amikacin: uses, resistance, and prospects for inhibition

MS Ramirez, ME Tolmasky - Molecules, 2017‏ - mdpi.com
Aminoglycosides are a group of antibiotics used since the 1940s to primarily treat a broad
spectrum of bacterial infections. The primary resistance mechanism against these antibiotics …

Role of mobile genetic elements in the global dissemination of the carbapenem resistance gene blaNDM

M Acman, R Wang, L van Dorp, LP Shaw… - Nature …, 2022‏ - nature.com
The mobile resistance gene bla NDM encodes the NDM enzyme which hydrolyses
carbapenems, a class of antibiotics used to treat some of the most severe bacterial …

Evolutionary history of the global emergence of the Escherichia coli epidemic clone ST131

N Stoesser, AE Sheppard, L Pankhurst, N De Maio… - MBio, 2016‏ - journals.asm.org
Escherichia coli sequence type 131 (ST131) has emerged globally as the most predominant
extraintestinal pathogenic lineage within this clinically important species, and its association …