Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria - A Contin. Chall. in the New Millenn.

586 Pages·2012·15.12 MB·English

by  M. Pana

ANTIBIOTIC
RESISTANT BACTERIA
– A CONTINUOUS
CHALLENGE
IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM

Edited by Marina Pana
Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria – A Continuous Challenge in the New Millennium
Edited by Marina Pana

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Contents

Preface IX
Part 1 Assessment of Antibiotic Resistance
in Clinical Relevant Bacteria 1
Chapter 1 Antibiotic Resistance:
An Emerging Global Headache 3
Maimoona Ahmed
Chapter 2 Antibiotic Resistance in Nursing Homes 15
Giorgio Ricci, Lucia Maria Barrionuevo, Paola Cosso,
Patrizia Pagliari and Aladar Bruno Ianes
Chapter 3 The Natural Antibiotic Resistances
of the Enterobacteriaceae Rahnella and Ewingella 77
Wilfried Rozhon, Mamoona Khan and Brigitte Poppenberger
Chapter 4 Trends of Antibiotic Resistance (AR)
in Mesophilic and Psychrotrophic Bacterial
Populations During Cold Storage of Raw Milk, Produced
by Organic and Conventional Farming Systems 105
Patricia Munsch-Alatossava, Vilma Ikonen,
Tapani Alatossava and Jean-Pierre Gauchi
Chapter 5 Stability of Antibiotic Resistance Patterns
in Agricultural Pastures: Lessons from Kentucky, USA 125
Sloane Ritchey, Siva Gandhapudi and Mark Coyne
Chapter 6 Emergence of Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria
from Coastal Environment – A Review 143
K.C.A. Jalal, B. Akbar John, B.Y. Kamaruzzaman and K. Kathiresan
Chapter 7 Biofilms: A Survival and Resistance
Mechanism of Microorganisms 159
Castrillón Rivera Laura Estela and Palma Ramos Alejandro
VI Contents

Chapter 8 Antibiotic Resistance, Biofilms
and Quorum Sensing in Acinetobacter Species 179
K. Prashanth, T. Vasanth, R. Saranathan,
Abhijith R. Makki and Sudhakar Pagal
Chapter 9 Prevalence of Carbapenemases
in Acinetobacter baumannii 213
M.M. Ehlers, J.M. Hughes and M.M. Kock
Chapter 10 Staphylococcal Infection,
Antibiotic Resistance and Therapeutics 247
Ranginee Choudhury, Sasmita Panda,
Savitri Sharma and Durg V. Singh
Chapter 11 Antibiotic Resistance
in Staphylococcus Species of Animal Origin 273
Miliane Moreira Soares de Souza, Shana de Mattos de Oliveira
Coelho, Ingrid Annes Pereira, Lidiane de Castro Soares,
Bruno Rocha Pribul and Irene da Silva Coelho
Chapter 12 Current Trends of Emergence and Spread
of Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci 303
Guido Werner
Chapter 13 Single Cell Level Survey
on Heterogenic Glycopeptide and -Lactams Resistance 355
Tomasz Jarzembowski, Agnieszka Jóźwik,
Katarzyna Wiśniewska and Jacek Witkowski
Chapter 14 Clinically Relevant Antibiotic Resistance Mechanisms Can
Enhance the In Vivo Fitness of Neisseria gonorrhoeae 371
Elizabeth A. Ohneck, Jonathan A. D'Ambrozio,
Anjali N. Kunz, Ann E. Jerse and William M. Shafer
Chapter 15 Mechanisms of Antibiotic Resistance
in Corynebacterium spp. Causing Infections in People 387
Alina Olender
Chapter 16 The MarR Family of Transcriptional
Regulators – A Structural Perspective 403
Thirumananseri Kumarevel
Chapter 17 Antibiotic Resistance Patterns in Faecal E. coli:
A Longitudinal Cohort-Control Study
of Hospitalized Horses 419
Mohamed O. Ahmed, Nicola J. Williams, Peter D. Clegg,
Keith E. Baptiste and Malcolm Bennett
Contents VII

Chapter 18 Clinical Impact of Extended-Spectrum
-Lactamase-Producing Bacteria 431
Yong Chong
Chapter 19 Occurrence, Antibiotic Resistance
and Pathogenicity of Non-O1 Vibrio cholerae
in Moroccan Aquatic Ecosystems: A Review 443
Khalid Oufdou and Nour-Eddine Mezrioui
Chapter 20 Antimicrobial Resistance of Bacteria in Food 455
María Consuelo Vanegas Lopez
Chapter 21 Antimicrobial Resistance Arising
from Food-Animal Productions and Its Mitigation 469
Lingling Wang and Zhongtang Yu
Part 2 Synthesis of New Antibiotics and Probiotics:
The Promise of the Next Decade 485
Chapter 22 Design, Development and Synthesis
of Novel Cephalosporin Group of Antibiotics 487
Kumar Gaurav, Sourish Karmakar, Kanika Kundu and Subir Kundu
Chapter 23 Assessment of Antibiotic
Resistance in Probiotic Lactobacilli 503
Masanori Fukao and Nobuhiro Yajima
Chapter 24 Antimicrobial Resistance and Potential
Probiotic Application of Enterococcus spp.
in Sea Bass and Sea Bream Aquaculture 513
Ouissal Chahad Bourouni, Monia El Bour,
Pilar Calo-Mata and Jorge Barros-Velàzquez
Chapter 25 Antibiotic-Free Selection for Bio-Production:
Moving Towards a New „Gold Standard“ 531
Régis Sodoyer, Virginie Courtois,
Isabelle Peubez and Charlotte Mignon
Chapter 26 Antibiotic Susceptibility of Probiotic Bacteria 549
Zorica Radulović, Tanja Petrović and Snežana Bulajić

Preface

Antibiotic-resistant bacterial strains remain a major global threat, despite the
prevention, diagnosis and antibiotherapy, which have improved considerably.
A better understanding of antibiotic resistant genes mechanisms and dissemination
became an urgent need for advancing public health and clinical management,
throughout Europe.
In this thematic issue, the scientists present their results of accomplished studies, in
order to provide an updated overview of scientific information and also, to exchange
views on new strategies for interventions in antibiotic-resistant bacterial strains cases
and outbreaks.
As a consequence, the recently developed techniques in this field will contribute to a
considerable progress in medical research.
However, the emergence of severe diseases caused by multi-drug-resistant
microorganisms remains a public health concern, with serious challenges to
chemotherapy and is open to scientific and clinical debate.
I take this occasion to thank so much, all contributors of this book, who demonstrated
that always there is something in you that can rise above and beyond everything you
think possible.

Dr. Marina Pana
National Contact Point for S.pneumoniae & N.meningitidis for ECDC,
Cantacuzino Institute,
Bucharest,
Romania