Pathogenesis of gram-negative bacteremia

CL Holmes, MT Anderson, HLT Mobley… - Clinical microbiology …, 2021 - journals.asm.org
Gram-negative bacteremia is a devastating public health threat, with high mortality in
vulnerable populations and significant costs to the global economy. Concerningly, rates of …

High-throughput screening of natural product and synthetic molecule libraries for antibacterial drug discovery

NJ Ayon - Metabolites, 2023 - mdpi.com
Due to the continued emergence of resistance and a lack of new and promising antibiotics,
bacterial infection has become a major public threat. High-throughput screening (HTS) …

Finding order in the chaos: outstanding questions in Klebsiella pneumoniae pathogenesis

S Gonzalez-Ferrer, HF Peñaloza, JA Budnick… - Infection and …, 2021 - journals.asm.org
Klebsiella pneumoniae are Gram-negative facultative anaerobes that are found within host-
associated commensal microbiomes, but they can also cause a wide range of infections that …

Biofilm antimicrobial susceptibility testing: where are we and where could we be going?

T Coenye - Clinical microbiology reviews, 2023 - journals.asm.org
Our knowledge about the fundamental aspects of biofilm biology, including the mechanisms
behind the reduced antimicrobial susceptibility of biofilms, has increased drastically over the …

Revitalizing antibiotic discovery and development through in vitro modelling of in-patient conditions

J Sollier, M Basler, P Broz, PS Dittrich, K Drescher… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Revitalizing antibiotic discovery and development through in vitro modelling of in-patient
conditions | Nature Microbiology Skip to main content Thank you for visiting nature.com. You …

Testing physiologically relevant conditions in minimal inhibitory concentration assays

CR Belanger, REW Hancock - Nature protocols, 2021 - nature.com
The minimal inhibitory concentration (MIC) assay uses agar or broth dilution methods to
measure, under defined test conditions, the lowest effective concentration of an antimicrobial …

[HTML][HTML] Increased energy demand from anabolic-catabolic processes drives β-lactam antibiotic lethality

MA Lobritz, IW Andrews, D Braff, CBM Porter… - Cell chemical …, 2022 - cell.com
Summary β-Lactam antibiotics disrupt the assembly of peptidoglycan (PG) within the
bacterial cell wall by inhibiting the enzymatic activity of penicillin-binding proteins (PBPs). It …

Nutrient stress is a target for new antibiotics

LA Carfrae, ED Brown - Trends in microbiology, 2023 - cell.com
Novel approaches are required to address the looming threat of pan-resistant Gram-
negative pathogens and forestall the rise of untreatable infections. Unconventional targets …

Klebsiella pneumoniae causes bacteremia using factors that mediate tissue-specific fitness and resistance to oxidative stress

CL Holmes, AE Wilcox, V Forsyth, SN Smith… - PLoS …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Gram-negative bacteremia is a major cause of global morbidity involving three phases of
pathogenesis: initial site infection, dissemination, and survival in the blood and filtering …

[HTML][HTML] Important challenges to finding new leads for new antibiotics

MA Farha, MM Tu, ED Brown - Current Opinion in Microbiology, 2025 - Elsevier
Identification of new antibiotics remains a huge challenge. The last antibiotic of new
chemical class and mechanism was discovered more than 30 years ago. Advances since …