When investigating the effect tolerance to a single drug has when combination therapy is being used to prevent antibiotic resistance, a team of researchers demonstrated that antimicrobial tolerance can promote resistance.
Published in Nature, new research elucidates the mechanism behind malarial resistance to piperaquine and suggests how this knowledge could be used to combat its spread.
Researchers have observed a bacterial mechanism that allows bacteria to change form and resist antibiotics, without the transfer of resistance genes.
Researchers have discovered that a relatively ancient drug efflux pump from Haemophilus influenzae exports the same antibiotics as its evolved counterpart from Escherichia coli, but was mitigated by a leaky porin channel.
Antibiotic tolerance significantly reduces antibiotic efficacy and contributes to treatment failure; targeting both antibiotic tolerance and antibiotic resistance is critical to develop new antimicrobial strategies that will successfully eradicate hard-to-treat infections.
New research presented at ECCMID has identified a novel association between antimicrobial resistance and climatic factors in Europe.
Mark Blaskovich gives us his thoughts on a recent study he led, published in Nature Communications, where the team re-engineered existing antibiotics to make them more powerful.
Researchers have demonstrated that antibiotic-resistance plasmids persist in the absence of antibiotics, provided that the efficiency of plasmid transfer exceeds a critical threshold, highlighting the limitations of ‘resistance-reversal’ strategies.
Certain clays are proven alternatives to antibiotics and their general antibacterial mechanism has been documented, but will it pay to implement this inexpensive treatment?
A recently published study has uncovered how an antibiotic that targets a metabolic pathway to starve bacteria of a nutrient can lead to cell death, shedding light on the downstream effects that can account for toxicity.
