objective: aminoglycosides are highly potent, broad-spectrum antibiotics with many desirable properties for the treatment of life-threatening infections. escherichia coli (e. coli) is the most common cause of urinary tract infection (uti). antibiotic resistance has recently become prevalent. enzymatic inactivation of aminoglycosides by aminoglycoside-modifying enzymes is the main mechanism of r...

The action of aminoglycoside antibiotics is inhibited by chemical modification catalyzed by aminoglycoside inactivating enzymes, which bind these cationic saccharides with active site pockets that contain a preponderance of negatively charged residues. In this study, it was observed that several cationic antimicrobial peptides, representing different structural classes, could serve as inhibitor...

Pan-aminoglycoside-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa mutants expressing the mexXY components of the aminoglycoside-accommodating MexXY-OprM multidrug efflux system but lacking mutations in the mexZ gene encoding a repressor of this efflux system and in the mexXY promoter have been reported (S. Fraud and K. Poole, Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. 55:1068-1074, 2011). Genome sequencing of one of thes...

The expression of the bifunctional aminoglycoside inactivating enzyme 6'-N-aminoglycoside acetyltransferase-2"-O-aminoglycoside phosphotransferase is the most important mechanism of high-level aminoglycoside resistance in Staphylococcus and Enterococcus. The enzyme is unique because it presents two different aminoglycoside-modifying activities located in different regions of the molecule. The g...

Escherichia coli isolates from various sources 2018 to 2019 were included in the study. Mcr-1 genes found two of 105 animal strains (2%) and seven 928 human (0.8%). All mcr-1-positive showed a low level resistance colistin (MIC ranged 4 8 µg/ml). Both isolated animals remained sensitive betalactam antibiotics did not contain beta-lactamase genes. Beta-lactamases absent only one humans. Four res...

INTRODUCTION Acinetobacter baumannii is opportunistic in debilitated hospitalised patients. Because information from some South American countries was previously lacking, this study examined the emergence of multi-resistant A. baumannii in three hospitals in Cochabamba, Bolivia, from 2008 to 2009. METHODOLOGY Multiplex PCR was used to identify the main resistance genes in 15 multi-resistant A...

Background: Enterococci are intrinsically resistant/tolerant to various antimicrobial agents and can also acquire combine different mechanisms of resistance, including quorum-sensing regulation, most active compounds, which makes enterococcal infection treatment even more challenging. The aim this study was evaluate the pattern resistance analyze frequency asa1 esp genes in clinical isolates re...