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Embracing ecology to limit antimicrobial resistance [PDF]

open access: goldCanadian Medical Association Journal, 2009
Headlines declaring “the end of the antimicrobial era” and “superbugs kill patients” are becoming commonplace. Such headlines engender anxiety, anguish and questions among the public. Is there a crisis? Does “something need to be done”?
Lindsay E. Nicolle   +2 more
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Pesticide resistance in arthropods: Ecology matters too [PDF]

open access: hybridEcology Letters, 2022
Abstract Pesticide resistance development is an example of rapid contemporary evolution that poses immense challenges for agriculture. It typically evolves due to the strong directional selection that pesticide treatments exert on herbivorous arthropods.
Audrey Bras   +4 more
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Resistance is fertile: Toward a political ecology of translocal resistance [PDF]

open access: hybridOrganization, 2021
There are more than 3000 ongoing conflicts involving the extractive industries (mining, gas, and oil) and communities impacted by extractive activity. Most of these conflicts are in the developing countries of Africa, Asia, and Latin America. In this paper we examine three resistance movements in Brazil, Chile, and India where Indigenous groups are ...
Subhabrata Bobby Banerjee   +2 more
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Molecular epidemiology of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, 2014
Objectives: E. coli O25b-ST131 has disseminated worldwide in hospitals and the community. The objective of this study was to determine the extent to which E. coli O25b-ST131 accounts for extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL)producing E.
Catherine Ludden   +5 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Complete genome of an inhibitor-resistant blaTEM-30 encoding Escherichia coli sequence type 127 isolate identified in human saliva with a high genotypic virulence load

open access: yesJournal of Global Antimicrobial Resistance, 2023
: Objectives: Escherichia coli sequence type (ST) 127 is a pandemic lineage that belongs to the extraintestial pathogenic (ExPEC) family, mainly associated with urinary tract infections and bloodstream infections.
Niamh McEvoy   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Genomic analysis reveals the presence of emerging pathogenic Klebsiella lineages aboard the International Space Station

open access: yesMicrobiology Spectrum, 2023
Klebsiella species, such as Klebsiella pneumoniae, Klebsiella aerogenes, and Klebsiella quasipneumoniae, are opportunistic pathogens that commonly cause infections in humans. Hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae (hvKP) is a subgroup of K.
Georgios Miliotis   +6 more
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Diversity of mucoid to non-mucoid switch among carbapenemase-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae

open access: yesBMC Microbiology, 2020
Background Klebsiella pneumoniae is a leading cause of intractable hospital-acquired multidrug-resistant infections and carbapenemase-producing K. pneumoniae (CPKp) are particularly feared.
Adriana Chiarelli   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Point Prevalence Survey of Antibiotic Resistance in the Irish Environment, 2018–2019

open access: yesEnvironment International, 2021
Water bodies worldwide have proven to be vast reservoirs of clinically significant antibiotic resistant organisms. Contamination of waters by anthropogenic discharges is a significant contributor to the widespread dissemination of antibiotic resistance ...
Brigid Hooban   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

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