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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Shyamalima Saikia, Indrani Gogoi, Amos Oloo, Mohan Sharma, Minakshi Puzari, Pankaj Chetia
Carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii poses a significant threat to public health globally, especially due to its ability to produce multiple carbapenemases, leading to treatment challenges. This study aimed to investigate the antibiotic resistance pattern of carbapenem-resistant A. baumannii isolates collected from different clinical settings in North East India, focusing on their genotypic and phenotypic resistance profiles. A total of 172 multidrug-resistant A. baumannii isolates were collected and subjected to antibiotic susceptibility test using the Kirby-Bauer disk diffusion method...
April 17, 2024: World Journal of Microbiology & Biotechnology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Hashem Saffarian, Ebrahim Rahimi, Faham Khamesipour, Seyed Majid Hashemi Dehkordi
Today, microbial contamination in food is one of the major problems of the food industry and public health in general around the world. Foodborne illnesses, such as diarrheal diseases, kill many people around the world each year. The general objective of this study was to evaluate the antioxidant and antibacterial activity of sodium alginate nanoemulsion coating incorporated with oregano essential oil ( Origanum vulgare L.) and Trachyspermum ammi oil ( Carum cupticum ) on Escherichia coli , and Listeria monocytogenes ...
April 2024: Food Science & Nutrition
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Yan Li, Yanyan Zhang, Xinran Sun, Yuchen Wu, Zelin Yan, Xiaoyang Ju, Yonglu Huang, Hongwei Zhou, Zhiqiang Wang, Shaolin Wang, Rong Zhang, Ruichao Li
BACKGROUND: Carbapenem-resistant Escherichia coli (CREC) has been considered as WHO priority pathogens, causing a great public health concern globally. While CREC from patients has been thoroughly investigated, the prevalence and underlying risks of CREC in healthy populations have been overlooked. Systematic research on the prevalence of CREC in healthy individuals was conducted here. We aimed to characterize CREC collected from healthy populations in China between 2020 and 2022 and to compare the genomes of CREC isolates isolated from healthy individuals and clinical patients...
April 16, 2024: Genome Medicine
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Elisabeth König, Lisa Kriegl, Christian Pux, Michael Uhlmann, Walter Schippinger, Alexander Avian, Robert Krause, Ines Zollner-Schwetz
BACKGROUND: Widespread inappropriate use of antimicrobial substances drives resistance development worldwide. In long-term care facilities (LTCF), antibiotics are among the most frequently prescribed medications. More than one third of antimicrobial agents prescribed in LTCFs are for urinary tract infections (UTI). We aimed to increase the number of appropriate antimicrobial treatments for UTIs in LTCFs using a multi-faceted antimicrobial stewardship intervention. METHODS: We performed a non-randomized cluster-controlled intervention study...
April 16, 2024: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Jones Anderson Monteiro Siqueira, Dielle Monteiro Teixeira, Guilherme Junior Leite da Piedade, Cintya de Oliveira Souza, Tuane Carolina Ferreira Moura, Marcia de Nazaré Miranda Bahia, Danielle Murici Brasiliense, Denise Suéllen Amorim de Sousa Santos, Lena Lillian Canto de Sa Morais, Dorotéa de Fátima Lobato da Silva, Bruno Santana Carneiro, Kenny da Costa Pinheiro, Edivaldo Costa Sousa Junior, Clístenes Pamplona Catete, Ricardo José de Paula Souza E Guimarães, James Lima Ferreira, Wanderley Dias das Chagas Junior, Raiana Scerni Machado, Fernando Neto Tavares, Hugo Reis Resque, Patrícia Dos Santos Lobo, Sylvia de Fátima Dos Santos Guerra, Luana Silva Soares, Luciana Damascena da Silva, Yvone Benchimol Gabbay
AIMS: The present study aimed to use a conventional and metagenomic approach to investigate the microbiological diversity of water bodies in a network of drainage channels and rivers located in the central area of the city of Belém, Northern Brazil, which is considered one of the largest cities in the Brazilian Amazon. METHODS AND RESULTS: In eight of the analyzed points, both bacterial and viral microbiological indicators of environmental contamination, the physical-chemical and metals were assessed...
April 16, 2024: Journal of Applied Microbiology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Xi Huo, Ping Liu
Antimicrobial de-escalation refers to reducing the spectrum of antibiotics used in treating bacterial infections. This strategy is widely recommended in many antimicrobial stewardship programs and is believed to reduce patients' exposure to broad-spectrum antibiotics and prevent resistance. However, the ecological benefits of de-escalation have not been universally observed in clinical studies. This paper conducts computer simulations to assess the ecological effects of de-escalation on the resistance prevalence of Pseudomonas aeruginosa-a frequent pathogen causing nosocomial infections...
2024: PloS One
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Wannes Van Holm, Naiera Zayed, Katalina Lauwens, Mehraveh Saghi, Jakob Axelsson, Merve Kübra Aktan, Annabel Braem, Kenneth Simoens, Lotte Vanbrabant, Paul Proost, Bram Van Holm, Piet Maes, Nico Boon, Kristel Bernaerts, Wim Teughels
Several inflammatory diseases are characterized by a disruption in the equilibrium between the host and its microbiome. Due to the increase in resistance, the use of antibiotics for the widespread, nonspecific killing of microorganisms is at risk. Pro-microbial approaches focused on stimulating or introducing beneficial species antagonistic toward pathobionts may be a viable alternative for restoring the host-microbiome equilibrium. Unfortunately, not all potential probiotic or synbiotic species and even subspecies (to strain level) are equally effective for the designated pathology, leading to conflicting accounts of their efficacy...
April 15, 2024: Probiotics and Antimicrobial Proteins
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Raisa N Chodankar, Raghunath Patil, Sumati A Hogade, Anandkumar G Patil, Aditya Acharya
UNLABELLED: Maintenance of the quality and hygiene of maxillofacial prosthesis allows to maintain the health of the residual tissues. Sampling of the maxillofacial prostheses has relieved presence of microbial colonization on silicone surfaces. Cleaning procedures of maxillofacial silicones are done using mechanical means or using adjunctive with chemical means. Cleaning with a 2-4% chlorhexidine gluconate spray or dipping in solution for a minute and then washing under running water can sufficiently condition to reduce the amount of bacterial contamination...
2024: Journal of Oral Biology and Craniofacial Research
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Tekalign Tadesse, Haile Alemayehu, Girmay Medhin, Aberaw Akalu, Tadesse Eguale
BACKGROUND: Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a global threat to public and animal health. Escherichia coli is considered an indicator organism for monitoring AMR among gram-negative Enterobacteriaceae in humans and animals. The current study aims to assess the antibiogram profile of E. coli isolated from dairy cattle and in-contact humans in central Ethiopia and to identify risk factors associated with multidrug resistance (MDR). METHODS: A cross-sectional study was conducted in which 58 farms were recruited from selected districts of central Ethiopia...
2024: Veterinary Medicine
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Zhe He, Ming-Ming Guan, Lan-Tu Xiong, Xuan Li, Yan Zeng, Xile Deng, Alastair N Herron, Zi-Ning Cui
With the increasing reports of antibiotic resistance in this species, Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a common human pathogen with important implications for public health. Bacterial quorum sensing (QS) systems are potentially broad and versatile targets for developing new antimicrobial compounds. While previous reports have demonstrated that certain amide compounds can inhibit bacterial growth, there are few reports on the specific inhibitory effects of these compounds on bacterial quorum sensing systems. In this study, thirty-one amide derivatives were synthesized...
April 13, 2024: European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Katie Robins, Greg O'Donnell, Anke Neumann, Wiebke Schmidt, Alwyn Hart, David W Graham
Many studies have characterised resistomes in river microbial communities. However, few have compared resistomes in parallel rural catchments that have few point-source inputs of antimicrobial genes (ARGs) and organisms (i.e., AMR) - catchments where one can contrast more nebulous drivers of AMR in rural rivers. Here, we used quantitative microbial profiling (QMP) to compare resistomes and microbiomes in two rural river catchments in Northern England, the Coquet and Eden in Northumberland and Cumbria, respectively, with different hydrological and geographical conditions...
April 11, 2024: Science of the Total Environment
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Tariq Aziz, Hu Hangyu, Muhammad Naveed, Muhammad Aqib Shabbir, Abid Sarwar, Jasra Nasbeeb, Yang Zhennai, Metab Alharbi
Due to its alleged health advantages, several uses in biotechnology and food safety, the well-known probiotic strain Lactiplantibacillus plantarum K25 has drawn interest. This in-depth investigation explores the genetic diversity, makeup, and security characteristics of the microbial genome of L. plantarum K25, providing insightful knowledge about its genotypic profile and functional characteristics. Utilizing cutting-edge bioinformatics techniques like comparative genomics, pan-genomics, and genotypic profiling was carried out to reveal the strain's multidimensional potential in various fields...
April 13, 2024: Probiotics and Antimicrobial Proteins
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Bruno Tilocca, Viviana Greco, Cristian Piras, Carlotta Ceniti, Mariachiara Paonessa, Vincenzo Musella, Roberto Bava, Ernesto Palma, Valeria Maria Morittu, Anna Antonella Spina, Fabio Castagna, Andrea Urbani, Domenico Britti, Paola Roncada
The bee gut microbiota plays an important role in the services the bees pay to the environment, humans and animals. Alongside, gut-associated microorganisms are vehiculated between apparently remote habitats, promoting microbial heterogeneity of the visited microcosms and the transfer of the microbial genetic elements. To date, no metaproteomics studies dealing with the functional bee microbiota are available. Here, we employ a metaproteomics approach to explore a fraction of the bacterial, fungal, and unicellular parasites inhabiting the bee gut...
March 27, 2024: International Journal of Molecular Sciences
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Ali Aydin, Ali Anil Suleymanoglu, Abzal Abdramanov, Peter Paulsen, Emek Dumen
Antimicrobial resistance is one of the major public health problems worldwide. This study aimed to detect the presence of extended-spectrum β-lactamase-(ESBL-)producing Escherichia ( E. ) coli in chicken meat in Istanbul, Türkiye. Raw chicken meat samples ( n = 208) were collected from different sale points and analyzed for ESBL-producing E. coli . In total, 101 (48.5%) isolates were confirmed as E. coli by PCR, of which 80/101 (79.2%) demonstrated multiple antibiotic resistance. Resistance against amoxicillin-clavulanic acid was most frequent (87...
April 7, 2024: Foods (Basel, Switzerland)
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Xiao-Xi Zhang, Zohar Lederman, Le-Fei Han, Janna M Schurer, Li-Hua Xiao, Zhi-Bing Zhang, Qiu-Lan Chen, Dirk Pfeiffer, Michael P Ward, Banchob Sripa, Sarah Gabriël, Kuldeep Dhama, Krishna Prasad Acharya, Lucy J Robertson, Sharon L Deem, Cécile Aenishaenslin, Filipe Dantas-Torres, Domenico Otranto, Delia Grace, Yang Wang, Peng Li, Chao Fu, Patrícia Poeta, Md Tanvir Rahman, Kokouvi Kassegne, Yong-Zhang Zhu, Kun Yin, Jiming Liu, Zhao-Jun Wang, Xiao-Kui Guo, Wen-Feng Gong, Bernhard Schwartländer, Ming-Hui Ren, Xiao-Nong Zhou
BACKGROUND: Despite the increasing focus on strengthening One Health capacity building on global level, challenges remain in devising and implementing real-world interventions particularly in the Asia-Pacific region. Recognizing these gaps, the One Health Action Commission (OHAC) was established as an academic community for One Health action with an emphasis on research agenda setting to identify actions for highest impact. MAIN TEXT: This viewpoint describes the agenda of, and motivation for, the recently formed OHAC...
April 12, 2024: Infectious Diseases of Poverty
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Gianluigi Ferri, Vincenzo Olivieri, Alberto Olivastri, Luca Pennisi, Alberto Vergara
AIMS: This study investigated phenotypic and genotypic antimicrobial resistance profiles of Vibrio strains identified from Mytilus galloprovincialis farmed for human consumption in the Adriatic Sea Central Italy. METHODS AND RESULTS: A total of 475 mussels (Mytilus galloprovincialis) were involved in the present study, and culture-dependent microbiological methods permitted to identify a total of 50 Vibrio strains that were tested for antibiotic susceptibility followed by the genetic determinant detections...
April 12, 2024: Journal of Applied Microbiology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Simone Scherrer, Michael Biggel, Marianne Schneeberger, Nicole Cernela, Fenja Rademacher, Sarah Schmitt, Roger Stephan
Streptococcus suis is an important pathogen causing severe disease in pigs and humans, giving rise to economic losses in the pig production industry. Out of 65 S. suis isolates collected from diseased pigs in Switzerland between 2019 and 2022, 57 isolates were thoroughly examined by phenotypic and whole genome sequence (WGS) based characterization. The isolates' genomes were sequenced allowing for a comprehensive analysis of their distribution in terms of serovar, sequence type (ST), clonal complex (CC), and classical virulence markers...
April 7, 2024: Veterinary Microbiology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Abdulqadir J Nashwan, Hussain Haider Shah, Tooba Hussain, Sameer Abdul Rauf, Sirwan Khalid Ahmed
This letter highlights the impact of environmental drivers on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) and highlights the need for a comprehensive approach to address this global health threat. Key factors, such as agricultural practices, wastewater treatment, and pollution, contribute to the development and spread of resistant pathogens. Utilizing the One Health approach, the paper emphasizes the importance of promoting responsible antimicrobial use, strengthening public health systems, investing in innovative research, and raising public awareness...
2024: Environmental Health Insights
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Costanza Vicentini, Roberta Bussolino, Claudia Gastaldo, Marta Castagnotto, Fortunato Paolo D'Ancona, Carla Maria Zotti
BACKGROUND: In November 2022, Italy participated in the third edition of the European Centre for disease prevention and control (ECDC) point prevalence survey (PPS) of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) in acute-care hospitals. A questionnaire based on the WHO infection prevention and control assessment framework (IPCAF) was included, which aims to investigate multimodal strategies for the implementation of IPC interventions. METHODS: A PPS was conducted using the ECDC PPS protocol version 6...
April 11, 2024: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Hong Bai, Liang-Ying He, Fang-Zhou Gao, Kai-Sheng Yao, Min Zhang, Lu-Kai Qiao, Zi-Yin Chen, Lu-Xi He, You-Sheng Liu, Jian-Liang Zhao, Guang-Guo Ying
Antimicrobial resistance is considered to be one of the biggest public health problems, and airborne transmission is an important but under-appreciated pathway for the spread of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in the environment. Previous research has shown pharmaceutical factories to be a major source of ARGs and antibiotic resistant bacteria (ARB) in the surrounding receiving water and soil environments. Pharmaceutical factories are hotspots of antibiotic resistance, but the atmospheric transmission and its environmental risk remain more concerns...
April 7, 2024: Environment International
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