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 …

Pathogenicity Factors of Genomic Islands in Intestinal and Extraintestinal Escherichia coli

M Desvaux, G Dalmasso, R Beyrouthy… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Escherichia coli is a versatile bacterial species that includes both harmless commensal
strains and pathogenic strains found in the gastrointestinal tract in humans and warm …

Proksee: in-depth characterization and visualization of bacterial genomes

JR Grant, E Enns, E Marinier, A Mandal… - Nucleic acids …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Proksee (https://proksee. ca) provides users with a powerful, easy-to-use, and
feature-rich system for assembling, annotating, analysing, and visualizing bacterial …

Combination of pre-adapted bacteriophage therapy and antibiotics for treatment of fracture-related infection due to pandrug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae

A Eskenazi, C Lood, J Wubbolts, M Hites… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
A 30-year-old bombing victim with a fracture-related pandrug-resistant Klebsiella
pneumoniae infection after long-term (> 700 days) antibiotic therapy is treated with a pre …

Bacteriophage-antibiotic combination therapy against extensively drug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection to allow liver transplantation in a toddler

B Van Nieuwenhuyse, D Van der Linden… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Post-operative bacterial infections are a leading cause of mortality and morbidity after
ongoing liver transplantation. Bacteria causing these infections in the hospital setting can …

Strain-level characterization of broad host range mobile genetic elements transferring antibiotic resistance from the human microbiome

SC Forster, J Liu, N Kumar, EL Gulliver… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Mobile genetic elements (MGEs) carrying antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) disseminate
ARGs when they mobilise into new bacterial hosts. The nature of such horizontal gene …

Nitrogen cycling and microbial cooperation in the terrestrial subsurface

OE Mosley, E Gios, M Close, L Weaver… - The ISME …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The nitrogen cycle plays a major role in aquatic nitrogen transformations, including in the
terrestrial subsurface. However, the variety of transformations remains understudied. To …

CARD 2023: expanded curation, support for machine learning, and resistome prediction at the Comprehensive Antibiotic Resistance Database

BP Alcock, W Huynh, R Chalil, KW Smith… - Nucleic acids …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Comprehensive Antibiotic Resistance Database (CARD; card. mcmaster. ca)
combines the Antibiotic Resistance Ontology (ARO) with curated AMR gene (ARG) …

VRprofile2: detection of antibiotic resistance-associated mobilome in bacterial pathogens

M Wang, YX Goh, C Tai, H Wang, Z Deng… - Nucleic acids …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
VRprofile2 is an updated pipeline that rapidly identifies diverse mobile genetic elements in
bacterial genome sequences. Compared with the previous version, three major …

[PDF][PDF] A bioinformatic analysis of integrative mobile genetic elements highlights their role in bacterial adaptation

MG Durrant, MM Li, BA Siranosian, SB Montgomery… - Cell host & …, 2020 - cell.com
Mobile genetic elements (MGEs) contribute to bacterial adaptation and evolution; however,
high-throughput, unbiased MGE detection remains challenging. We describe MGEfinder, a …