Emergent crisis of antibiotic resistance: A silent pandemic threat to 21st century

F Akram, M Imtiaz, I ul Haq - Microbial Pathogenesis, 2023 - Elsevier
Antibiotic resistance has become an indispensably alarming menace to the global
community. The primary factors are overuse and abuse of antibiotics, lack of novel …

Molecular mechanisms of antibiotic resistance

JMA Blair, MA Webber, AJ Baylay, DO Ogbolu… - Nature reviews …, 2015 - nature.com
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria that are difficult or impossible to treat are becoming increasingly
common and are causing a global health crisis. Antibiotic resistance is encoded by several …

The rapid spread of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae

RF Potter, AW D'Souza, G Dantas - Drug Resistance Updates, 2016 - Elsevier
Carbapenems, our one-time silver bullet for multidrug resistant bacterial infections, are now
threatened by widespread dissemination of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae …

Mechanisms of resistance to aminoglycoside antibiotics: overview and perspectives

S Garneau-Tsodikova, KJ Labby - Medchemcomm, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Aminoglycoside (AG) antibiotics are used to treat many Gram-negative and some Gram-
positive infections and, importantly, multidrug-resistant tuberculosis. Among various …

Aminoglycoside resistance: the emergence of acquired 16S ribosomal RNA methyltransferases

Y Doi, J Wachino, Y Arakawa - Infectious disease clinics of …, 2016 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Antimicrobial resistance has been recognized as one of the most pressing public health and
societal issues of our times. The problem is most acute in gram-negative bacteria, where …

Bacterial enzymes and antibiotic resistance

AM Egorov, MM Ulyashova… - Acta Naturae …, 2018 - cyberleninka.ru
The resistance of microorganisms to antibiotics has been develo** for more than 2 billion
years and is widely distributed among various representatives of the microbiological world …

Tigecycline antibacterial activity, clinical effectiveness, and mechanisms and epidemiology of resistance: narrative review

S Yaghoubi, AO Zekiy, M Krutova, M Gholami… - European Journal of …, 2022 - Springer
Tigecycline is unique glycylcycline class of semisynthetic antimicrobial agents developed for
the treatment of polymicrobial infections caused by multidrug-resistant Gram-positive and …

Prevalence and molecular characterisation of New Delhi metallo-β-lactamases NDM-1, NDM-5, NDM-6 and NDM-7 in multidrug-resistant Enterobacteriaceae from …

M Rahman, SK Shukla, KN Prasad, CM Ovejero… - International journal of …, 2014 - Elsevier
The growing prevalence of carbapenem resistance in Enterobacteriaceae worldwide is a
major concern. New Delhi metallo-β-lactamase (NDM)-mediated carbapenem resistance …

Aminoglycoside resistance: updates with a focus on acquired 16S ribosomal RNA methyltransferases

JI Wachino, Y Doi, Y Arakawa - Infectious Disease Clinics, 2020 - id.theclinics.com
(Enterococcus faecium, Staphylococcus aureus, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Acinetobacter
baumannii, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Enterobacter spp) pathogens, has become a …

Carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae strains exhibit diversity in aminoglycoside-modifying enzymes, which exert differing effects on plazomicin and other …

R Almaghrabi, CJ Clancy, Y Doi, B Hao… - Antimicrobial agents …, 2014 - journals.asm.org
We measured in vitro activity of plazomicin, a next-generation aminoglycoside, and other
aminoglycosides against 50 carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae strains from two …