Strategies to counter transmission of “superbugs” by targeting free-living 3 amoebae
Bacterial infections have remained significant despite our advances in the development of a plethora of disinfectants as well as antimicrobial chemotherapy. This is in part due to our incomplete understanding of the prevalence of bacterial pathogens in the environmental and clinical settings. Severa...
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| author | Siddiqui, Ruqaiyyah Bano * Khan, Naveed Ahmed * |
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| description | Bacterial infections have remained significant despite our advances in the development of a plethora of disinfectants as well as antimicrobial chemotherapy. This is in part due to our incomplete understanding of the prevalence of bacterial pathogens in the environmental and clinical settings. Several lines of evidence suggest that Acanthamoeba is one of the most ubiquitous/resilient protists that also acts as a host/reservoir for pathogenic microbes. Thus targeting the hardy host, which harbour microbial pathogens, offer a potential avenue to counter infection transmission, particularly hospital/community-acquired infections. This will complement existing approach of applying disinfectants that are targeted against bacterial pathogens 10 directly. |
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| spelling | sunway-5082019-04-23T01:19:12Z http://eprints.sunway.edu.my/508/ Strategies to counter transmission of “superbugs” by targeting free-living 3 amoebae Siddiqui, Ruqaiyyah Bano * Khan, Naveed Ahmed * QH301 Biology Bacterial infections have remained significant despite our advances in the development of a plethora of disinfectants as well as antimicrobial chemotherapy. This is in part due to our incomplete understanding of the prevalence of bacterial pathogens in the environmental and clinical settings. Several lines of evidence suggest that Acanthamoeba is one of the most ubiquitous/resilient protists that also acts as a host/reservoir for pathogenic microbes. Thus targeting the hardy host, which harbour microbial pathogens, offer a potential avenue to counter infection transmission, particularly hospital/community-acquired infections. This will complement existing approach of applying disinfectants that are targeted against bacterial pathogens 10 directly. Elsevier 2017 Article PeerReviewed text en http://eprints.sunway.edu.my/508/1/Naveed%20Khan%2011.pdf Siddiqui, Ruqaiyyah Bano * and Khan, Naveed Ahmed * (2017) Strategies to counter transmission of “superbugs” by targeting free-living 3 amoebae. Experimental parasitology. ISSN 0014-4894 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exppara.2017.08.006 |
| spellingShingle | QH301 Biology Siddiqui, Ruqaiyyah Bano * Khan, Naveed Ahmed * Strategies to counter transmission of “superbugs” by targeting free-living 3 amoebae |
| title | Strategies to counter transmission of “superbugs” by targeting free-living 3 amoebae |
| title_full | Strategies to counter transmission of “superbugs” by targeting free-living 3 amoebae |
| title_fullStr | Strategies to counter transmission of “superbugs” by targeting free-living 3 amoebae |
| title_full_unstemmed | Strategies to counter transmission of “superbugs” by targeting free-living 3 amoebae |
| title_short | Strategies to counter transmission of “superbugs” by targeting free-living 3 amoebae |
| title_sort | strategies to counter transmission of “superbugs” by targeting free-living 3 amoebae |
| topic | QH301 Biology |
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