Mobile Tigecycline Resistance: An Emerging Health Catastrophe Requiring Urgent One Health Global Intervention

Mobile tigecycline resistance (MTR) threatens the clinical efficacy of the salvage antibiotic, tigecycline (TIG) used in treating deadly infections in humans caused by superbugs (multidrug-, extensively drug-, and pandrug-resistant bacteria), including carbapenem- and colistin-resistant bacteria. Cu...

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Main Authors: Madubuike Umunna Anyanwu, Obichukwu Chisom Nwobi, Charles Odilichukwu R. Okpala, Ifeoma M. Ezeonu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-08-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2022.808744/full