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ReviewFrontiers in microbiology2024

Prevention and potential remedies for antibiotic resistance: current research and future prospects.

Rabiya Tabbassum Khan, Vanshika Sharma, Sofia Sharief Khan, Shafaq Rasool

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Review in Frontiers in microbiology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. NIR-Assisted Multimodal Strategies for Enhanced Antibacterial Therapy.Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) · 2026
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  4. Whole-Genome Sequencing of Multidrug-ResistantInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2026
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  6. Mechanisms ofMedicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Rabiya Tabbassum KhanMolecular Biology Lab, School of Biotechnology, Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, Katra, India.
Vanshika SharmaMolecular Biology Lab, School of Biotechnology, Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, Katra, India.
Sofia Sharief KhanMolecular Biology Lab, School of Biotechnology, Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, Katra, India.
Shafaq RasoolMolecular Biology Lab, School of Biotechnology, Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, Katra, India.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The increasing threat of antibiotic resistance and shrinking treatment options for infections have pushed mankind into a difficult position. The looming threat of the return of the pre-antibiotic era has caused a sense of urgency to protect and conserve the potency of antibiotic therapy. One of the perverse effects of antibiotic resistance is the dissemination of its causative agents from non-clinically important strains to clinically important strains and vice versa. The popular saying "Prevention is better than cure" is appropriate for tackling antibiotic resistance. On the one hand, new and effective antibiotics are required; on the other hand, better measures for the use of antibiotics, along with increased awareness in the general public related to antibiotic use, are essential. Awareness, especially of appropriate antibiotic use, antibiotic resistance, its dissemination, and potential threats, can help greatly in controlling the use and abuse of antibiotics, and the containment of antibiotic resistance. Antibiotic drugs' effectiveness can be enhanced by producing novel antibiotic analogs or adding adjuvants to current antibiotics. Combinatorial therapy of antibiotics has proven successful in treating multidrug-resistant (MDR) bacterial infections. This review aims to highlight the current global situation of antibiotic resistance and discuss the methods used to monitor, prevent, inhibit, or reverse bacterial resistance mechanisms in the fight against antibiotic resistance.

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antibiotic resistanceantibioticscombinational therapyglassmultidrug resistanceprevention strategies

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PMID39421555
PMCPMC11484029

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