The challenge of antimicrobial resistance: what economics can contribute

LSJ Roope, RD Smith, KB Pouwels, J Buchanan… - Science, 2019 - science.org
BACKGROUND Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is increasing, driven by widespread
antibiotic use. The wide availability of effective antibiotics is under threat, jeopardizing …

Evolutionary mechanisms sha** the maintenance of antibiotic resistance

P Durão, R Balbontín, I Gordo - Trends in microbiology, 2018 - cell.com
Antibiotics target essential cellular functions but bacteria can become resistant by acquiring
either exogenous resistance genes or chromosomal mutations. Resistance mutations …

Balancing mcr-1 expression and bacterial survival is a delicate equilibrium between essential cellular defence mechanisms

Q Yang, M Li, OB Spiller, DO Andrey… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
MCR-1 is a lipid A modifying enzyme that confers resistance to the antibiotic colistin. Here,
we analyse the impact of MCR-1 expression on E. coli morphology, fitness, competitiveness …

Regulatory fine-tuning of mcr-1 increases bacterial fitness and stabilises antibiotic resistance in agricultural settings

L Ogunlana, D Kaur, LP Shaw, P Jangir… - The ISME …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Antibiotic resistance tends to carry fitness costs, making it difficult to understand how
resistance can be maintained in the absence of continual antibiotic exposure. Here we …

Insights into the resistome of bovine clinical mastitis microbiome, a key factor in disease complication

MN Hoque, A Istiaq, RA Clement, KM Gibson… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Bovine clinical mastitis (CM) is one of the most prevalent diseases caused by a wide range
of resident microbes. The emergence of antimicrobial resistance in CM bacteria is well …

Epistasis and the evolution of antimicrobial resistance

A Wong - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2017 - frontiersin.org
The fitness effects of a mutation can depend, sometimes dramatically, on genetic
background; this phenomenon is often referred to as “epistasis.” Epistasis can have …

Characterization of the microbial resistome in conventional and “raised without antibiotics” beef and dairy production systems

P Rovira, T McAllister, SM Lakin, SR Cook… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Metagenomic investigations have the potential to provide unprecedented insights into
microbial ecologies, such as those relating to antimicrobial resistance (AMR). We …

Hypermutator Pseudomonas aeruginosa exploits multiple genetic pathways to develop multidrug resistance during long-term infections in the airways of cystic fibrosis …

CA Colque, AG Albarracín Orio, S Feliziani… - Antimicrobial agents …, 2020 - journals.asm.org
Pseudomonas aeruginosa exploits intrinsic and acquired resistance mechanisms to resist
almost every antibiotic used in chemotherapy. Antimicrobial resistance in P. aeruginosa …

Steering phages to combat bacterial pathogens

J Gurney, SP Brown, O Kaltz, ME Hochberg - Trends in microbiology, 2020 - cell.com
A critical issue facing humanity is the rise in antimicrobial resistance. Although increasing
research effort is spent on develo** novel drugs, few alternatives reach the clinic. Phage …

[HTML][HTML] Antibiotic persistence as a metabolic adaptation: stress, metabolism, the host, and new directions

DJ Cabral, JI Wurster, P Belenky - Pharmaceuticals, 2018 - mdpi.com
Persistence is a phenomenon during which a small fraction of a total bacterial population
survives treatment with high concentrations of antibiotics for an extended period of time. In …