The fitness costs of antibiotic resistance mutations

AH Melnyk, A Wong, R Kassen - Evolutionary applications, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Antibiotic resistance is increasing in pathogenic microbial populations and is thus a major
threat to public health. The fate of a resistance mutation in pathogen populations is …

[HTML][HTML] Antibiotics in Canadian poultry productions and anticipated alternatives

MS Diarra, F Malouin - Frontiers in microbiology, 2014 - frontiersin.org
The use of antibiotics in food-producing animals has significantly increased animal health by
lowering mortality and the incidence of diseases. Antibiotics also have largely contributed to …

[HTML][HTML] Where are all the new antibiotics? The new antibiotic paradox

JM Conly, BL Johnston - … Canadian journal of infectious diseases & …, 2005 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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Antimicrobial resistance in hospitals: how concerned should we be?

MR Mulvey, AE Simor - Cmaj, 2009 - Can Med Assoc
The emergence of antibiotic-resistant organisms is a major public health concern,
particularly in hospitals and other health care settings. 1, 2 Antibiotic-resistant organisms …

[HTML][HTML] Antimicrobial resistance among campylobacter strains, United States, 1997–2001

A Gupta, JM Nelson, TJ Barrett, RV Tauxe… - Emerging infectious …, 2004 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
We summarize antimicrobial resistance surveillance data in human and chicken isolates of
Campylobacter. Isolates were from a sentinel county study from 1989 through 1990 and from …

Bacteriophages: the possible solution to treat infections caused by pathogenic bacteria

A El-Shibiny, S El-Sahhar - Canadian journal of microbiology, 2017 - cdnsciencepub.com
Since their discovery in 1915, bacteriophages have been used to treat bacterial infections in
animals and humans because of their unique ability to infect their specific bacterial hosts …

Population-Based Laboratory Surveillance for Escherichia coli–Producing Extended-Spectrum β-Lactamases: Importance of Community Isolates with blaCTX-M …

JDD Pitout, ND Hanson, DL Church… - Clinical Infectious …, 2004 - academic.oup.com
A prospective, population-based laboratory surveillance study was conducted to define the
epidemiology of extended-spectrum β-lactamase–producing Escherichia coli infections in …

Ceftaroline: A Novel Broad-Spectrum Cephalosporin with Activity against Meticillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus

GG Zhanel, G Sniezek, F Schweizer, S Zelenitsky… - Drugs, 2009 - Springer
Ceftaroline is a broad-spectrum cephalosporin currently under clinical investigation for the
treatment of complicated skin and skin-structure infections (cSSSI), including those caused …

Capacity of human nisin-and pediocin-producing lactic acid bacteria to reduce intestinal colonization by vancomycin-resistant enterococci

M Millette, G Cornut, C Dupont, F Shareck… - Applied and …, 2008 - Am Soc Microbiol
This study demonstrated the capacity of bacteriocin-producing lactic acid bacteria (LAB) to
reduce intestinal colonization by vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) in a mouse model …

Assessing the assessments: pharmaceuticals in the environment

OV Enick, MM Moore - Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 2007 - Elsevier
The relatively new issue of pharmaceutical contamination of the environment offers the
opportunity to explore the application of values to the construction, communication and …