Microbial Resistance: Bacteria and More

Microbial polyketide synthases: more and more prolific.

Microorganisms make a wealth of unusual metabolites that have a secondary role in the organism’s ontogeny, such as self-defense, aggression, or even communication as the need arises. These compounds often have biological activity valuable to humankind (1). Nevertheless, as valuable as antibiotics and other naturally occurring drugs have been over the past 60 years, their future use is threatene...

Chloroflexi bacteria are more diverse, abundant, and similar in high than in low microbial abundance sponges.

Some marine sponges harbor dense and phylogenetically complex microbial communities [high microbial abundance (HMA) sponges] whereas others contain only few and less diverse microorganisms [low microbial abundance (LMA) sponges]. We focused on the phylum Chloroflexi that frequently occurs in sponges to investigate the different associations with three HMA and three LMA sponges from New Zealand....

Microbial Resistance and Biocides

Microbial resistance or team resistance?

Results Studies show that bacterial resistance is increasing in parallel with antibiotic use, it is estimated by the World Health Organization (WHO) that 25 to 33% of patients use antimicrobial drugs during their hospitalization. Although the choice of antibiotic is a doctor’s concern , the administration of drugs is carried out by nursing staff who are nursing assistants and technicians being ...

Counting viruses and bacteria in photosynthetic microbial