ReviewComputational and structural biotechnology journal2020
The antibiotic crisis: How bacterial predators can help.
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- Predation in microbial communities: gradients of nutritive killing.Nature reviews. Microbiology · 2026Review
- Antibacterial Potential of Human Umbilical Cord Mesenchymal Stem Cell-Derived Exosomes AgainstIranian journal of medical sciences · 2026Article
- Targeting Horizontal Gene Transfer to Combat Antimicrobial Resistance: A Review of Mechanisms, Drivers, and Multi-Omics Strategies.Infection and drug resistance · 2026Review
- Novel Isolate ofAntibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Coevolutionary history of predation constrains the evolvability of antibiotic resistance in prey bacteria.npj antimicrobials and resistance · 2025Article
- Nature's Arsenal: Uncovering Antibacterial Agents Against Antimicrobial Resistance.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Effectiveness of predatory bacteriumOpen veterinary journal · 2025Article
- Acquisition of novel antibiotic resistance genes by the bacterial predator Bacteriovorax sp. As-1.The ISME journal · 2025Article
- An efficient method for visualizing the plaques of Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus.Archives of microbiology · 2024Article
- Comparative analysis of gut microbiome in Pangasionodon hypopthalmus and Labeo catla during health and disease.International microbiology : the official journal of the Spanish Society for Microbiology · 2024Article
- Predatory Bacteria in the Treatment of Infectious Diseases and Beyond.Infectious disease reports · 2024Review
- Microbial extracellular vesicles contribute to antimicrobial resistance.PLoS pathogens · 2024Review
- Siderophores and competition for iron govern myxobacterial predation dynamics.The ISME journal · 2024Article
- Novel strains of Actinobacteria associated with neotropical social wasps (Vespidae; Polistinae, Epiponini) with antimicrobial potential for natural product discovery.FEMS microbes · 2024Article
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- Translating eco-evolutionary biology into therapy to tackle antibiotic resistance.Nature reviews. Microbiology · 2023Review
- Predatory bacteria as potential biofilm control and eradication agents in the food industry.Food science and biotechnology · 2023Review
- Binary or Nonbinary Fission? Reproductive Mode of a Predatory Bacterium Depends on Prey Size.mBio · 2023Article
- Effect of Copper Sulphate Exposure on the Oxidative Stress, Gill Transcriptome and External Microbiota of Yellow Catfish,Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Chromosomal organization of biosynthetic gene clusters suggests plasticity of myxobacterial specialized metabolism including descriptions for nine novel species:bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2023Article
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5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Discovery of antimicrobials in the past century represented one of the most important advances in public health. Unfortunately, the massive use of these compounds in medicine and other human activities has promoted the selection of pathogens that are resistant to one or several antibiotics. The current antibiotic crisis is creating an urgent need for research into new biological weapons with the ability to kill these superbugs. Although a proper solution requires this problem to be addressed in a variety of ways, the use of bacterial predators is emerging as an excellent strategy, especially when used as whole cell therapeutic agents, as a source of new antimicrobial agents by awakening silent metabolic pathways in axenic cultures, or as biocontrol agents. Moreover, studies on their prey are uncovering mechanisms of resistance that can be shared by pathogens, representing new targets for novel antimicrobial agents. In this review we discuss potential of the studies on predator-prey interaction to provide alternative solutions to the problem of antibiotic resistance.
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