Antimicrobial resistance in aquaculture: a crisis for concern

PG Preena, TR Swaminathan, VJR Kumar, ISB Singh - Biologia, 2020 - Springer
Emergence of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in cultured fishes is one of the major
challenges faced in aquaculture. The high prevalence of bacterial infections in fishes leads …

The antimicrobial resistance crisis: causes, consequences, and management

CA Michael, D Dominey-Howes… - Frontiers in public health, 2014 - frontiersin.org
The antimicrobial resistance (AMR) crisis is the increasing global incidence of infectious
diseases affecting the human population, which are untreatable with any known …

Integrons: past, present, and future

MR Gillings - Microbiology and molecular biology reviews, 2014 - journals.asm.org
Integrons are versatile gene acquisition systems commonly found in bacterial genomes.
They are ancient elements that are a hot spot for genomic complexity, generating phenotypic …

Antimicrobial use in aquaculture re‐examined: its relevance to antimicrobial resistance and to animal and human health

FC Cabello, HP Godfrey, A Tomova… - Environmental …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The worldwide growth of aquaculture has been accompanied by a rapid increase in
therapeutic and prophylactic usage of antimicrobials including those important in human …

Antimicrobial resistance in the next 30 years, humankind, bugs and drugs: a visionary approach

M Bassetti, G Poulakou, E Ruppe, E Bouza… - Intensive care …, 2017 - Springer
Purpose To describe the current standards of care and major recent advances with regard to
antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and to give a prospective overview for the next 30 years in …

Quaternary ammonium disinfectants: microbial adaptation, degradation and ecology

U Tezel, SG Pavlostathis - Current opinion in biotechnology, 2015 - Elsevier
Highlights•Quaternary ammonium compounds (QACs) are disinfectants used in many
applications.•Bacteria exposed to sub-inhibitory QAC concentrations develop …

SOS, the formidable strategy of bacteria against aggressions

Z Baharoglu, D Mazel - FEMS microbiology reviews, 2014 - academic.oup.com
The presence of an abnormal amount of single-stranded DNA in the bacterial cell constitutes
a genotoxic alarm signal that induces the SOS response, a broad regulatory network found …

Bacterial stress responses as determinants of antimicrobial resistance

K Poole - Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Bacteria encounter a myriad of stresses in their natural environments, including, for
pathogens, their hosts. These stresses elicit a variety of specific and highly regulated …

Identification and analysis of integrons and cassette arrays in bacterial genomes

J Cury, T Jové, M Touchon, B Néron… - Nucleic acids …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Integrons recombine gene arrays and favor the spread of antibiotic resistance. Their broader
roles in bacterial adaptation remain mysterious, partly due to lack of computational tools. We …

Multidrug resistant commensal Escherichia coli in animals and its impact for public health

A Szmolka, B Nagy - Frontiers in microbiology, 2013 - frontiersin.org
After the era of plentiful antibiotics we are alarmed by the increasing number of antibiotic
resistant strains. The genetic flexibility and adaptability of Escherichia coli to constantly …