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Antibiotic prophylaxis

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New antimicrobial surfaces and intravascular catheters for the prevention of healthcare-associated infections

Myriam Koumba Sarah Ballo

Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) are an important health issue around the world. The consequences of HAIs incidence include prolonged hospital stays, increased resistance of microorganisms to antimicrobials, higher costs for health systems and for t ...

EPFL2017

Establishment and Validation of Whole-Cell Based Fluorescence Assays to Identify Anti-Mycobacterial Compounds Using the Acanthamoeba castellanii - Mycobacterium marinum Host-Pathogen System

John McKinney

Tuberculosis is considered to be one of the world's deadliest disease with 2 million deaths each year. The need for new antitubercular drugs is further exacerbated by the emergence of drug-resistance strains. Despite multiple recent efforts, the majority o ...

Public Library of Science2014

Dielectrophoresis-based purification of antibiotic-treated bacterial subpopulations

Philippe Renaud, John McKinney, Neeraj Dhar, Rodrigo Martinez Duarte, Meltem Elitas

Persistence of bacteria during antibiotic therapy is a widespread phenomenon, of particular importance in refractory mycobacterial infections such as leprosy and tuberculosis. Persistence is characterized by the phenotypic tolerance of a subpopulation of b ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2014

Targeting Bacterial Central Metabolism for Drug Development

John McKinney, Paul Murima

Current antibiotics, derived mainly from natural sources, inhibit a narrow spectrum of cellular processes, namely DNA replication, protein synthesis, and cell wall biosynthesis. With the worldwide explosion of drug resistance, there is renewed interest in ...

Elsevier2014

Highly sensitive detection of five typical fluoroquinolones in low-fat milk by field-enhanced sample injection based CE in bubble cell capillary

Hubert Girault, Liang Qiao, Natalia Gasilova

Fluoroquinolones are a group of synthetic antibiotics with a broad activity spectrum against mycoplasma, gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria. Due to the extensive use of fluoroquinolones in farming and veterinary science, there is a constant need in t ...

Wiley-Blackwell2014

Molecular Simulations Highlight the Role of Metals in Catalysis and Inhibition of Type II Topoisomerase

Matteo Dal Peraro, Marco Stenta, Andrea Cavalli

Type II topoisomerase (topoII) is a metalloenzyme targeted by clinical antibiotics and anticancer agents. Here, we integrate existing structural data with molecular simulation and propose a model for the yet uncharacterized structure of the reactant state ...

Amer Chemical Soc2013

Design and Synthesis of 16-Membered Cyclopeptides Active Against Vancomycin-resistant Enterococci (VRE)

Jieping Zhu

The design, synthesis and antibiotic activities of the modified carboxylate binding pocket (D-O-E ring) of vancomycin (1) were summarized in this short account. The preliminary Structure-Activity Relationship (SAR) studies indicated that both the structure ...

Schweizerische Chemische Gesellschaft2013