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ReviewAntibiotics (Basel, Switzerland)2023

CRISPR-Cas9 System: A Prospective Pathway toward Combatting Antibiotic Resistance.

Muhammad Uzair Javed, Muhammad Tahir Hayat, Hamid Mukhtar, Kalman Imre

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Review in Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

26 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Methicillin-ResistantMicroorganisms · 2026
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  3. Nanocarrier-mediated CRISPR-Cas delivery: a novel approach against antibiotic-resistant superbugs.Saudi pharmaceutical journal : SPJ : the official publication of the Saudi Pharmaceutical Society · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Muhammad Uzair JavedDepartment of Biotechnology, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad 45320, Pakistan.
Muhammad Tahir HayatDepartment of Biotechnology, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad 45320, Pakistan.
Hamid MukhtarInstitute of Industrial Biotechnology, Government College University, Lahore 54000, Pakistan.
Kalman ImreDepartment of Animal Production and Veterinary Public Health, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Life Sciences "King Mihai I" from Timişoara, 300645 Timișoara, Romania.ORCID 0000-0002-6057-882X

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Antibiotic resistance is rising to dangerously high levels throughout the world. To cope with this problem, scientists are working on CRISPR-based research so that antibiotic-resistant bacteria can be killed and attacked almost as quickly as antibiotic-sensitive bacteria. Nuclease activity is found in Cas9, which can be programmed with a specific target sequence. This mechanism will only attack pathogens in the microbiota while preserving commensal bacteria. This article portrays the delivery methods used in the CRISPR-Cas system, which are both viral and non-viral, along with its implications and challenges, such as microbial dysbiosis, off-target effects, and failure to counteract intracellular infections. CRISPR-based systems have a lot of applications, such as correcting mutations, developing diagnostics for infectious diseases, improving crops productions, improving breeding techniques, etc. In the future, CRISPR-based systems will revolutionize the world by curing diseases, improving agriculture, and repairing genetic disorders. Though all the drawbacks of the technology, CRISPR carries great potential; thus, the modification and consideration of some aspects could result in a mind-blowing technique to attain all the applications listed and present a game-changing potential.

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antibiotics resistance genesdrug resistancegenome editingguide RNAtarget sequence

Identifiers

PMID37370394
PMCPMC10295005

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