Previously, we showed that antibiotics select for the movement of transposable ARGs from chromosomes onto multicopy plasmids, because the increased copy number of ARGs on multicopy plasmids leads to higher expression of those genes and thus higher resistance5. Based on those findings, we reasoned that...
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known ascarbapenems, were derived from penicillin some 48 years after it was first discovered and still work in the same way. However, they have undergone clever chemical modification to prevent bacteria successfully evolving to resist them. This makes them a...
Biofilms are everywhere, but if they’re on your teeth, we refer to them as plaque. This dense and sticky deposit is hard to remove, thereby protecting resident microbes from environmental assaults, like toothpaste, floss or even antibiotics. ...
(aPDI). In comparison to conventional treatment of bacterial infections with antibiotics, aPDI exhibits several advantages, including a ROS-based broad spectrum of activities against a multitude of different microbes together with a high efficacy towards resting cells and pathogenic strains that exhibit ...
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coli isolates gained resistance to several types of antibiotics compared to other classes; they displayed the resistance to five antibiotics such as ampicillin, chloramphenicol, kanamycin, nalidixic acid, and tetracycline. Six E. coli isolates were collected from lettuce samples that gained a resistance...
It has been estimated that most of the antibiotics used presently for common human and animal infections will be useless within five to ten years, turning back the clock to the pre-antibiotic era [1]. Antimicrobial agents are principally used for therapy and prevention of human and animal ...
The Incompatibility 18 (Inc18) group of plasmids contains one or more antibiotic resistance genes encoding resistance to vancomycin, chloramphenicol and the macrolide–lincosamide–streptogramin (MLS) group of antibiotics. These plasmids have a broad host range and have frequently been found in bacteri...
Safety concerns arising from their virulence factors and resistance to a variety of antibiotics [45] are associated with members of the genus Enterococcus; thus, they were not proposed for QPS status [51]. Important physiological properties are characteristics of all LAB, such as the capacity to ...