Population genomics of Klebsiella pneumoniae

KL Wyres, MMC Lam, KE Holt - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2020 - nature.com
Klebsiella pneumoniae is a common cause of antimicrobial-resistant opportunistic infections
in hospitalized patients. The species is naturally resistant to penicillins, and members of the …

Porins and small-molecule translocation across the outer membrane of Gram-negative bacteria

J Vergalli, IV Bodrenko, M Masi, L Moynié… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
Gram-negative bacteria and their complex cell envelope, which comprises an outer
membrane and an inner membrane, are an important and attractive system for studying the …

A genomic surveillance framework and genoty** tool for Klebsiella pneumoniae and its related species complex

MMC Lam, RR Wick, SC Watts, LT Cerdeira… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Klebsiella pneumoniae is a leading cause of antimicrobial-resistant (AMR) healthcare-
associated infections, neonatal sepsis and community-acquired liver abscess, and is …

Safety of bacteriophage therapy in severe Staphylococcus aureus infection

A Petrovic Fabijan, RCY Lin, J Ho, S Maddocks… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
In this single-arm non-comparative trial, 13 patients in an Australian hospital with severe
Staphylococcus aureus infections were intravenously administered a good manufacturing …

Mating pair stabilization mediates bacterial conjugation species specificity

WW Low, JLC Wong, LC Beltran, C Seddon… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Bacterial conjugation mediates contact-dependent transfer of DNA from donor to recipient
bacteria, thus facilitating the spread of virulence and resistance plasmids. Here we describe …

Biological foundations of successful bacteriophage therapy

C Venturini, A Petrovic Fabijan… - EMBO Molecular …, 2022 - embopress.org
Bacteriophages (phages) are selective viral predators of bacteria. Abundant and ubiquitous
in nature, phages can be used to treat bacterial infections (phage therapy), including …

Assessment of activity and resistance mechanisms to cefepime in combination with the novel β-lactamase inhibitors zidebactam, taniborbactam, and enmetazobactam …

JC Vázquez-Ucha, C Lasarte-Monterrubio… - Antimicrobial Agents …, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
The global distribution of carbapenemases such as KPC, OXA-48, and metallo-β-
lactamases (MBLs) gives cause for concern, as these enzymes are not inhibited by classical …

[HTML][HTML] Molecular insights of carbapenem resistance Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates with focus on multidrug resistance from clinical samples

S Indrajith, AK Mukhopadhyay, G Chowdhury… - Journal of Infection and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background Carbapenem are the last-line antibiotic, defence against Gram-negative
extended spectrum ß-lactamases producers (ESBLs). Carbapenem resistance …

Recurrent emergence of Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenem resistance mediated by an inhibitory ompK36 mRNA secondary structure

JLC Wong, S David… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Outer membrane porins in Gram-negative bacteria facilitate antibiotic influx. In Klebsiella
pneumoniae, modifications in the porin OmpK36 are implicated in increasing resistance to …

Extensively drug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae counteracts fitness and virulence costs that accompanied ceftazidime-avibactam resistance acquisition

E Eger, M Schwabe, L Schulig, NO Hübner… - Microbiology …, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
The ability of extensively drug-resistant (XDR) Klebsiella pneumoniae to rapidly acquire
resistance to novel antibiotics is a global concern. Moreover, Klebsiella clonal lineages that …