Burkholderia pseudomallei and melioidosis

EM Meumann, D Limmathurotsakul… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Burkholderia pseudomallei, the causative agent of melioidosis, is found in soil and water of
tropical and subtropical regions globally. Modelled estimates of the global burden predict …

Antimicrobial peptides: from design to clinical application

C Zhang, M Yang - Antibiotics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Infection of multidrug-resistant (MDR) bacteria, such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus
aureus (MRSA), carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE), and extended-spectrum …

Genetically diverse Pseudomonas aeruginosa populations display similar transcriptomic profiles in a cystic fibrosis explanted lung

A Kordes, M Preusse, SD Willger, P Braubach… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Previous studies have demonstrated substantial genetic diversification of Pseudomonas
aeruginosa across sub-compartments in cystic fibrosis (CF) lungs. Here, we isolate P …

[PDF][PDF] Antibiotic susceptibility of clinical Burkholderia pseudomallei isolates in northeast Thailand during 2015-2018 and the genomic characterization of β-lactam …

SHY Fen, S Tandhavanant, R Phunpang… - Antimicrobial agents …, 2021 - drive.google.com
Melioidosis is an often fatal infection in tropical regions caused by an environmental
bacterium, Burkholderia pseudomallei. Current recommended melioidosis treatment …

Effective therapeutic options for melioidosis: antibiotics versus phage therapy

YM Lim, J Vadivelu, V Mariappan, G Venkatraman… - Pathogens, 2022 - mdpi.com
Melioidosis, also known as Whitmore's disease, is a potentially fatal infection caused by the
Gram-negative bacteria Burkholderia pseudomallei with a mortality rate of 10–50%. The …

Raising the Stakes: Loss of Efflux Pump Regulation Decreases Meropenem Susceptibility in Burkholderia pseudomallei

DS Sarovich, JR Webb, MC Pitman… - Clinical Infectious …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Background Burkholderia pseudomallei, the causative agent of the high-mortality disease
melioidosis, is a gram-negative bacterium that is naturally resistant to many antibiotics …

Crystal structures of multidrug efflux transporters from Burkholderia pseudomallei suggest details of transport mechanism

T Kato, U Okada, LW Hung, E Yamashita… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - pnas.org
BpeB and BpeF are multidrug efflux transporters from Burkholderia pseudomallei that
enable multidrug resistance. Here, we report the crystal structures of BpeB and BpeF at 2.94 …

Transcriptomic analysis of longitudinal Burkholderia pseudomallei infecting the cystic fibrosis lung

EP Price, LT Viberg, TJ Kidd, SC Bell… - Microbial …, 2018 - microbiologyresearch.org
The melioidosis bacterium, Burkholderia pseudomallei, is increasingly being recognised as
a pathogen in patients with cystic fibrosis (CF). We have recently catalogued genome-wide …

Conservation of resistance-nodulation-cell division efflux pump-mediated antibiotic resistance in Burkholderia cepacia complex and Burkholderia pseudomallei …

N Somprasong, J Yi, CM Hall, JR Webb… - Antimicrobial Agents …, 2021 - journals.asm.org
Burkholderia cepacia complex (Bcc) and Burkholderia pseudomallei complex (Bpc) species
include pathogens that are typically multidrug resistant. Dominant intrinsic and acquired …

Taking the next-gen step: Comprehensive antimicrobial resistance detection from Burkholderia pseudomallei

DE Madden, JR Webb, EJ Steinig, BJ Currie… - …, 2021 - thelancet.com
Background Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) poses a major threat to human health. Whole-
genome sequencing holds great potential for AMR identification; however, there remain …