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ArticleAdvanced pharmaceutical bulletin2015

Efficient Inactivation of Multi-Antibiotics Resistant Nosocomial Enterococci by Purified Hiracin Bacteriocin.

Maryam Hassan, Dag Anders Brede, Dzung B Diep, Ingolf F Nes, Farzaneh Lotfipour, Zoya Hojabri

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Article in Advanced pharmaceutical bulletin, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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6 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Maryam HassanPharmaceutical Biotechnology Research Center, Zanjan University of Medical Sciences, Zanjan, Iran.
Dag Anders BredeNorwegian University of Life Sciences, Department of Chemistry, Biotechnology and Food Science, Laboratory of Microbial Gene Technology, N1432 Aas, Norway.
Dzung B DiepNorwegian University of Life Sciences, Department of Chemistry, Biotechnology and Food Science, Laboratory of Microbial Gene Technology, N1432 Aas, Norway.
Ingolf F NesNorwegian University of Life Sciences, Department of Chemistry, Biotechnology and Food Science, Laboratory of Microbial Gene Technology, N1432 Aas, Norway.
Farzaneh LotfipourFaculty of Pharmacy, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran.
Zoya HojabriDepartment of Microbiology, School of Medicine, Semnan University of Medical Sciences, Semnan, Iran.
Biotechnology Research Center · IRSemnan University of Medical Sciences · IRTabriz University of Medical Sciences · IR

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposeBecause of the emergence of multi-antibiotic resistant bacteria, a number of infectious diseases have become a major concern to treat in health care services worldwide. This situation is worsened by the fact that very limited progress has been made in developing new and potent antibiotics in recent years. In this context antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) represent new potential therapeutic compounds with bactericidal or bacteriostatic activity against closely related bacterial strains.

methodsIn this study, a collection of enterococci (n=170) from clinical sources were investigated for their potential to inhibit multiresistant nosocomial enterococci from Iranian hospitals.

resultsFour isolates produced antimicrobial peptides that inhibited all the antibiotic resistant enterococci. This included three Enterococcus faecium isolates producing combinations of enterocin A, B and L50 AB. The most potent antagonism was produced by E. faecalis HO91. Purification and subsequent characterization by MALDI-TOF MS, Edman degradation and DNA-sequencing revealed that the antimicrobial compound was Hiracin. The purified Hiracin was evaluated for antibacterial activity against 12 multiresistant enterococcal isolates from clinical samples. The results demonstrated that Hiracin is highly effective towards enterococci which were resistant even to antibiotics from four distinct classes.

conclusionThe present research addresses Hiracin as a promising alternative to conventional antibiotics in treatment of multiresistant enterococcal infections.

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EnterococciHiracinMulti-antibiotic resistantPurification

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