Mechanisms of drug resistance: quinolone resistance

DC Hooper, GA Jacoby - Annals of the New York academy of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Quinolone antimicrobials are synthetic and widely used in clinical medicine. Resistance
emerged with clinical use and became common in some bacterial pathogens. Mechanisms …

Topoisomerase inhibitors: fluoroquinolone mechanisms of action and resistance

DC Hooper, GA Jacoby - Cold Spring …, 2016 - perspectivesinmedicine.cshlp.org
Quinolone antimicrobials are widely used in clinical medicine and are the only current class
of agents that directly inhibit bacterial DNA synthesis. Quinolones dually target DNA gyrase …

Defining the oral microbiome by whole-genome sequencing and resistome analysis: the complexity of the healthy picture

E Caselli, C Fabbri, M D'Accolti, I Soffritti, C Bassi… - BMC microbiology, 2020 - Springer
Background The microbiome of the oral cavity is the second-largest and diverse microbiota
after the gut, harboring over 700 species of bacteria and including also fungi, viruses, and …

Acquired antibiotic resistance genes: an overview

AHAM Van Hoek, D Mevius, B Guerra… - Frontiers in …, 2011 - frontiersin.org
In this review an overview is given on antibiotic resistance (AR) mechanisms with special
attentions to the AR genes described so far preceded by a short introduction on the …

Transforming clinical microbiology with bacterial genome sequencing

X Didelot, R Bowden, DJ Wilson, TEA Peto… - Nature Reviews …, 2012 - nature.com
Whole-genome sequencing of bacteria has recently emerged as a cost-effective and
convenient approach for addressing many microbiological questions. Here, we review the …

An evaluation of multidrug-resistant Escherichia coli isolates in urinary tract infections from Aguascalientes, Mexico: cross-sectional study

FY Ramírez-Castillo, AC Moreno-Flores… - Annals of clinical …, 2018 - Springer
Abstract Background Uropathogenic Escherichia coli (UPEC) are one of the main bacteria
causing urinary tract infections (UTIs). The rates of UPEC with high resistance towards …

Resistance Plasmid Families in Enterobacteriaceae

A Carattoli - Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy, 2009 - Am Soc Microbiol
Bacteria carry extrachromosomal, self-replicating genetic elements called plasmids. A
plasmid is defined as a doublestranded, circular DNA molecule capable of autonomous …

Plasmid-mediated quinolone resistance: a multifaceted threat

J Strahilevitz, GA Jacoby, DC Hooper… - Clinical microbiology …, 2009 - Am Soc Microbiol
Although plasmid-mediated quinolone resistance (PMQR) was thought not to exist before its
discovery in 1998, the past decade has seen an explosion of research characterizing this …

Quinolones: from antibiotics to autoinducers

S Heeb, MP Fletcher, SR Chhabra… - FEMS microbiology …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Since quinine was first isolated, animals, plants and microorganisms producing a wide
variety of quinolone compounds have been discovered, several of which possess …

Pyrosequencing of antibiotic-contaminated river sediments reveals high levels of resistance and gene transfer elements

E Kristiansson, J Fick, A Janzon, R Grabic… - PloS one, 2011 - journals.plos.org
The high and sometimes inappropriate use of antibiotics has accelerated the development
of antibiotic resistance, creating a major challenge for the sustainable treatment of infections …