Antibiotic tolerance among clinical isolates: mechanisms, detection, prevalence, and significance

AT Deventer, CE Stevens, A Stewart… - Clinical Microbiology …, 2024 - journals.asm.org
Antibiotic treatment failures in the absence of resistance are not uncommon. Recently,
attention has grown around the phenomenon of antibiotic tolerance, an underappreciated …

Altered serine metabolism promotes drug tolerance in Mycobacterium abscessus via a WhiB7-mediated adaptive stress response

C Bernard, Y Liu, G Larrouy-Maumus… - Antimicrobial Agents …, 2024 - journals.asm.org
Mycobacterium abscessus is an emerging opportunistic pathogen responsible for chronic
lung diseases, especially in patients with cystic fibrosis. Treatment failure of M. abscessus …

Bacterial biofilms: Pathogenesis, monitoring, treatment approaches and associated challenges

S Dhiman, A Kumar, G Kaur, G Mukherjee, S Rustagi… - Biologia, 2024 - Springer
Recognition of the fact that bacterial biofilm might contribute to the development of diseases
has prompted a greater emphasis on identifying conditions, that could be linked to the …

Disrupting central carbon metabolism increases Β-lactam antibiotic susceptibility in Vibrio Cholerae

M Keller, X Han, T Dörr - Journal of Bacteriology, 2023 - journals.asm.org
Antibiotic tolerance, the ability of bacteria to sustain viability in the presence of typically
bactericidal antibiotics for extended time periods, is an understudied contributor to treatment …

Novel daptomycin tolerance and resistance mutations in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus from adaptive laboratory evolution

JE Sulaiman, H Lam - Msphere, 2021 - journals.asm.org
It has been shown recently in a number of in vitro laboratory evolution experiments that
under repetitive antibiotic exposure, bacterial populations can adapt quickly to the treatment …

Multidrug tolerance conferred by loss-of-function mutations in anti-sigma factor RshA of Mycobacterium abscessus

WW Aragaw, TT Gebresilase, DA Negatu… - Antimicrobial Agents …, 2024 - journals.asm.org
Low-level drug resistance in noncanonical pathways can constitute step**stones toward
acquisition of high-level on-target resistance mutations in the clinic. To capture these …

Mutation in the two-component system regulator YycH leads to daptomycin tolerance in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus upon evolution with a population …

JE Sulaiman, L Wu, H Lam - Microbiology Spectrum, 2022 - journals.asm.org
Adaptive laboratory evolution (ALE) is a useful tool to study the evolution of antibiotic
tolerance in bacterial populations under diverse environmental conditions. The role of …

Phenotypic resistant single-cell characteristics under recurring ampicillin antibiotic exposure in Escherichia coli

S Kollerová, L Jouvet, J Smelková, S Zunk-Parras… - …, 2024 - journals.asm.org
Non-heritable, phenotypic drug resistance toward antibiotics challenges antibiotic therapies.
Characteristics of such phenotypic resistance have implications for the evolution of heritable …

Proteomics and transcriptomics uncover key processes for elasnin tolerance in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

JE Sulaiman, L Long, PY Qian, H Lam - Msystems, 2022 - journals.asm.org
Elasnin is a new antibiofilm compound that was recently reported to have excellent activity
against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) biofilms. In this study, we …