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ReviewFrontiers in pharmacology2023

Antibiotic action and resistance: updated review of mechanisms, spread, influencing factors, and alternative approaches for combating resistance.

Esraa M Halawa, Mohamed Fadel, Mohammed W Al-Rabia, Ali Behairy, Nehal A Nouh, Mohamed Abdo, Rada Olga, Liana Fericean, Ahmed M Atwa, Mohammad El-Nablaway and 1 more

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Review in Frontiers in pharmacology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 101 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

101 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors.

Esraa M HalawaDepartment of Botany and Microbiology, Faculty of Science, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt.
Mohamed FadelDepartment of Microbial Chemistry, Biotechnology Research Institute, National Research Centre, Dokki, Cairo, Egypt.
Mohammed W Al-RabiaDepartment of Clinical Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Ali BehairyDepartment of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, Benha University, Benha, Egypt.
Nehal A NouhDepartment of Microbiology, Medicine Program, Batterjee Medical College, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Mohamed AbdoDepartment of Animal Histology and Anatomy, School of Veterinary Medicine, Badr University in Cairo (BUC), Badr City, Egypt.
Rada OlgaDepartment of Biology and Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Life Sciences "King Michael I" from Timișoara, Timișoara, Romania.
Liana FericeanDepartment of Biology and Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Life Sciences "King Michael I" from Timișoara, Timișoara, Romania.
Ahmed M AtwaDepartment of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Egyptian Russian University, Cairo, Egypt.
Mohammad El-NablawayDepartment of Medical Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt.
Ahmed AbdeenDepartment of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Benha University, Toukh, Egypt.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Antibiotics represent a frequently employed therapeutic modality for the management of bacterial infections across diverse domains, including human health, agriculture, livestock breeding, and fish farming. The efficacy of antibiotics relies on four distinct mechanisms of action, which are discussed in detail in this review, along with accompanying diagrammatic illustrations. Despite their effectiveness, antibiotic resistance has emerged as a significant challenge to treating bacterial infections. Bacteria have developed defense mechanisms against antibiotics, rendering them ineffective. This review delves into the specific mechanisms that bacteria have developed to resist antibiotics, with the help of diagrammatic illustrations. Antibiotic resistance can spread among bacteria through various routes, resulting in previously susceptible bacteria becoming antibiotic-resistant. Multiple factors contribute to the worsening crisis of antibiotic resistance, including human misuse of antibiotics. This review also emphasizes alternative solutions proposed to mitigate the exacerbation of antibiotic resistance.

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antibiotic resistanceantibioticsantimicrobialbacteriadisease spreading

Identifiers

PMID38283841
PMCPMC10820715

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