Kisameet Clay Exhibits Potent Antibacterial Activity against the ESKAPE Pathogens

The ESKAPE (Enterococcus faecium, Staphylococcus aureus, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Acinetobacter baumannii, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Enterobacter species) pathogens cause an increasing number of nosocomial infections worldwide since they escape the inhibitory effect of the available antibiotics and...

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Autores principales: Behroozian, Shekooh, Svensson, Sarah L., Davies, Julian
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Society of Microbiology 2016
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Observation
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4742703/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26814180
http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/mBio.01842-15
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description The ESKAPE (Enterococcus faecium, Staphylococcus aureus, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Acinetobacter baumannii, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Enterobacter species) pathogens cause an increasing number of nosocomial infections worldwide since they escape the inhibitory effect of the available antibiotics and the immune response. Here, we report the broad-spectrum and potent antibacterial activity of Kisameet clay, a natural clay mineral from British Columbia, Canada, against a group of multidrug-resistant ESKAPE strains. The results suggest that this natural clay might be developed as a therapeutic option for the treatment of serious infections caused by these important pathogens.
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spelling pubmed-47427032016-02-13 Kisameet Clay Exhibits Potent Antibacterial Activity against the ESKAPE Pathogens Behroozian, Shekooh Svensson, Sarah L. Davies, Julian mBio Observation The ESKAPE (Enterococcus faecium, Staphylococcus aureus, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Acinetobacter baumannii, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Enterobacter species) pathogens cause an increasing number of nosocomial infections worldwide since they escape the inhibitory effect of the available antibiotics and the immune response. Here, we report the broad-spectrum and potent antibacterial activity of Kisameet clay, a natural clay mineral from British Columbia, Canada, against a group of multidrug-resistant ESKAPE strains. The results suggest that this natural clay might be developed as a therapeutic option for the treatment of serious infections caused by these important pathogens. American Society of Microbiology 2016-01-26 /pmc/articles/PMC4742703/ /pubmed/26814180 http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/mBio.01842-15 Text en Copyright © 2016 Behroozian et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/) , which permits unrestricted noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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title_fullStr Kisameet Clay Exhibits Potent Antibacterial Activity against the ESKAPE Pathogens
title_full_unstemmed Kisameet Clay Exhibits Potent Antibacterial Activity against the ESKAPE Pathogens
title_short Kisameet Clay Exhibits Potent Antibacterial Activity against the ESKAPE Pathogens
title_sort kisameet clay exhibits potent antibacterial activity against the eskape pathogens
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4742703/
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