Antibiotics in the soil environment—degradation and their impact on microbial activity and diversity

M Cycoń, A Mrozik, Z Piotrowska-Seget - Frontiers in microbiology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Antibiotics play a key role in the management of infectious diseases in humans, animals,
livestock, and aquacultures all over the world. The release of increasing amount of …

[HTML][HTML] An overview of the antimicrobial resistance mechanisms of bacteria

WC Reygaert - AIMS microbiology, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Resistance to antimicrobial agents has become a major source of morbidity and mortality
worldwide. When antibiotics were first introduced in the 1900's, it was thought that we had …

It's Not Easy Being Green: A Narrative Review on the Microbiology, Virulence and Therapeutic Prospects of Multidrug-Resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa

P Behzadi, Z Baráth, M Gajdács - Antibiotics, 2021 - mdpi.com
Pseudomonas aeruginosa is the most frequent cause of infection among non-fermenting
Gram-negative bacteria, predominantly affecting immunocompromised patients, but its …

New insights into the degradation of synthetic pollutants in contaminated environments

P Bhatt, S Gangola, G Bhandari, W Zhang, D Maithani… - Chemosphere, 2021 - Elsevier
The environment is contaminated by synthetic contaminants owing to their extensive
applications globally. Hence, the removal of synthetic pollutants (SPs) from the environment …

Bacterial exo-polysaccharides in biofilms: role in antimicrobial resistance and treatments

S Singh, S Datta, KB Narayanan… - Journal of Genetic …, 2021 - Springer
Background Bacterial biofilms are aggregation or collection of different bacterial cells which
are covered by self-produced extracellular matrix and are attached to a substratum …

Antibiotic resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa–Mechanisms, epidemiology and evolution

J Botelho, F Grosso, L Peixe - Drug resistance updates, 2019 - Elsevier
Antibiotics are powerful drugs used in the treatment of bacterial infections. The inappropriate
use of these medicines has driven the dissemination of antibiotic resistance (AR) in most …

Deciphering the mobility and bacterial hosts of antibiotic resistance genes under antibiotic selection pressure by metagenomic assembly and binning approaches

R Zhao, K Yu, J Zhang, G Zhang, J Huang, L Ma… - Water research, 2020 - Elsevier
The presence of antibiotics can exert significant selection pressure on the emergence and
spread of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) and antibiotic resistant bacteria (ARB) …

Pseudomonas aeruginosa Lifestyle: A Paradigm for Adaptation, Survival, and Persistence

MF Moradali, S Ghods, BHA Rehm - Frontiers in cellular and infection …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an opportunistic pathogen affecting immunocompromised
patients. It is known as the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in cystic fibrosis (CF) …

The challenge of efflux-mediated antibiotic resistance in Gram-negative bacteria

XZ Li, P Plésiat, H Nikaido - Clinical microbiology reviews, 2015 - Am Soc Microbiol
The global emergence of multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria is a growing threat to
antibiotic therapy. The chromosomally encoded drug efflux mechanisms that are ubiquitous …

The age of coumarins in plant–microbe interactions

IA Stringlis, R De Jonge… - Plant and Cell Physiology, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Coumarins are a family of plant-derived secondary metabolites that are produced via the
phenylpropanoid pathway. In the past decade, coumarins have emerged as iron-mobilizing …