Bacterial defences: mechanisms, evolution and antimicrobial resistance

WPJ Smith, BR Wucher, CD Nadell… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Throughout their evolutionary history, bacteria have faced diverse threats from other
microorganisms, including competing bacteria, bacteriophages and predators. In response …

Surveillance of antimicrobial resistance in low-and middle-income countries: a scattered picture

K Iskandar, L Molinier, S Hallit, M Sartelli… - … Resistance & Infection …, 2021 - Springer
Data on comprehensive population-based surveillance of antimicrobial resistance is lacking.
In low-and middle-income countries, the challenges are high due to weak laboratory …

Toward a universal unit for quantification of antibiotic resistance genes in environmental samples

X Yin, X Chen, XT Jiang, Y Yang, B Li… - Environmental …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Surveillance of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) has been increasingly conducted in
environmental sectors to complement the surveys in human and animal sectors under the …

CARD 2020: antibiotic resistome surveillance with the comprehensive antibiotic resistance database

BP Alcock, AR Raphenya, TTY Lau… - Nucleic acids …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Comprehensive Antibiotic Resistance Database (CARD; https://card. mcmaster.
ca) is a curated resource providing reference DNA and protein sequences, detection models …

An ISO-certified genomics workflow for identification and surveillance of antimicrobial resistance

NL Sherry, KA Horan, SA Ballard… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Realising the promise of genomics to revolutionise identification and surveillance of
antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has been a long-standing challenge in clinical and public …

Monitoring antibiotic resistance genes in wastewater treatment: Current strategies and future challenges

AQ Nguyen, HP Vu, LN Nguyen, Q Wang… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a growing threat to human and animal health. Progress in
molecular biology has revealed new and significant challenges for AMR mitigation given the …

Antibiotic resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa–Mechanisms, epidemiology and evolution

J Botelho, F Grosso, L Peixe - Drug resistance updates, 2019 - Elsevier
Antibiotics are powerful drugs used in the treatment of bacterial infections. The inappropriate
use of these medicines has driven the dissemination of antibiotic resistance (AR) in most …

[HTML][HTML] ARGs-OAP v3. 0: Antibiotic-resistance gene database curation and analysis pipeline optimization

X Yin, X Zheng, L Li, AN Zhang, XT Jiang, T Zhang - Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
Antibiotic resistance, which is encoded by antibiotic-resistance genes (ARGs), has
proliferated to become a growing threat to public health around the world. With technical …

Label-free terahertz microfluidic biosensor for sensitive DNA detection using graphene-metasurface hybrid structures

R Zhou, C Wang, Y Huang, K Huang, Y Wang… - Biosensors and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Metasurface assisted terahertz (THz) real-time and label-free biosensors have attracted
intense attention. However, it is still challenging for specific detection of highly absorptive …

[HTML][HTML] Antimicrobial Resistance Threats in the emerging COVID-19 pandemic: Where do we stand?

S Ghosh, C Bornman, MM Zafer - Journal of infection and public health, 2021 - Elsevier
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) continues to exert a substantial toll on the global health and
world economy and is now expected to be hidden by COVID-19 for a while. The wrong …