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Pihl EVK. Bettie's travels: How pigs enable new connections between human health innovations and industrial agricultural pork production in Denmark. SOCIAL STUDIES OF SCIENCE 2024:3063127241268772. [PMID: 39150336 DOI: 10.1177/03063127241268772] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/17/2024]
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Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, this paper unfolds the past and present uses of pigs that structured the emergence of a pig model of gut-hormone based appetite control, leading to the current scientific breakthrough in treatment of obesity. While the hyping of next generation medications for obesity and type 2 diabetes centers on the efficacy and profits attached to these drugs, I unfold how science embedded in this development had the in-vivo and in-vitro travels of Bettie-an obese Göttingen Minipig pig-at its heart. Tracing how she became embedded in a circuit of vitality connecting industrial agriculture and science on human health, I show how both are governed by a shared valuation of pigs' fat. Bettie's fat, however, was not to be eaten. Instead, Bettie was consumed in knowledge production. For pigs to enter this new trajectory, Bettie emerged as a promissory site for extraction of molecular information made possible by new visualization technologies and representational strategies that allowed for the coupling of human-pig physiology at the cellular level. While her travels were spurred by the hope of discovery of small molecules, Bettie allows us to grasp an important shift in science, as the insights derived from her work emphasized the importance of physiology and the environment for human obesity. In doing so, she served as a visceral model. On a larger scale, Bettie's entering science on human health reflects a recursive structure of knowledge in which the present problems with obesity and type 2 diabetes derive from the solutions to previous problems associated with alleviating hunger.
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Haraoui LP, Rizk A, Landecker H. States of Resistance: nosocomial and environmental approaches to antimicrobial resistance in Lebanon. HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF THE LIFE SCIENCES 2024; 46:28. [PMID: 39090452 PMCID: PMC11294430 DOI: 10.1007/s40656-024-00624-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2023] [Accepted: 06/24/2024] [Indexed: 08/04/2024]
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Drawing on institutional historical records, interviews and student theses, this article charts the intersection of hospital acquired illness, the emergence of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), environments of armed conflict, and larger questions of social governance in the specific case of the American University of Beirut Medical Center (AUBMC) in Lebanon. Taking a methodological cue from approaches in contemporary scientific work that understand non-clinical settings as a fundamental aspect of the history and development of AMR, we treat the hospital as not just nested in a set of social and environmental contexts, but frequently housing within itself elements of social and environmental history. AMR in Lebanon differs in important ways from the settings in which global protocols for infection control or rubrics for risk factor identification for resistant nosocomial outbreaks were originally generated. While such differences are all too often depicted as failures of low and middle-income countries (LMIC) to maintain universal standards, the historical question before us is quite the reverse: how have the putatively universal rubrics of AMR and hospital infection control failed to take account of social and environmental conditions that clearly matter deeply in the evolution and spread of resistance? Focusing on conditions of war as an organized chaos in which social, environmental and clinical factors shift dramatically, on the social and political topography of patient transfer, and on a missing "meso" level of AMR surveillance between the local and global settings, we show how a multisectoral One Health approach to AMR could be enriched by an answering multisectoral methodology in history, particularly one that unsettles a canonical focus on the story of AMR in the Euro-American context.
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- Louis-Patrick Haraoui
- Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada
- Centre de Recherche Charles-Le Moyne, CISSS Montérégie-Centre, Greenfield Park, QC, Canada
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- Department of Anthropology and Sociology, Geneva Graduate Institute (IHEID), Geneva, Switzerland
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- Department of Sociology, Institute for Society and Genetics, 264 Haines Hall, 375 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA.
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Sudenkaarne T, Butcher A. From super-wicked problems to more-than-human justice: new bioethical frameworks for antimicrobial resistance and climate emergency. Monash Bioeth Rev 2024:10.1007/s40592-024-00197-z. [PMID: 38990507 DOI: 10.1007/s40592-024-00197-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 05/22/2024] [Indexed: 07/12/2024]
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In this article, building on our multidisciplinary expertise on philosophy, anthropology, and social study of microbes, we discuss and analyze new approaches to justice that have emerged in thinking with more-than-human contexts: microbes, animals, environments and ecosystems. We situate our analysis in theory of and practical engagements with antimicrobial resistance and climate emergency that both can be considered super-wicked problems. In offering solutions to such problems, we discuss a more-than-human justice orientation, seeking to displace human exceptionalism while still engaging with human social justice issues. We offer anthropological narratives to highlight how more-than-human actors already play an important role in environmental and climate politics. These narratives further justify the need for new ethical frameworks, out of which we, for further development outside the scope of this article, suggest a queer feminist posthumanist one.
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- Tiia Sudenkaarne
- Department of Sociology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
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- Department of Sociology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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Kashouris E. 'When all you have is a hammer, everything has to be a nail': Managing diagnostic uncertainty in urinary tract infection. SOCIOLOGY OF HEALTH & ILLNESS 2024. [PMID: 38829769 DOI: 10.1111/1467-9566.13803] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2024] [Accepted: 05/19/2024] [Indexed: 06/05/2024]
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Diagnosis of urinary tract infections (UTI) is a routine part of medical work and yet is well recognised to be an area of high clinical uncertainty. Meanwhile, diagnosis of UTI is becoming increasingly important to policymakers globally due to concerns about antibiotic over-prescription. Drawing on Mol's concept of ontological multiplicity in clinical work, I explore how diagnostic uncertainty is co-ordinated into certainty by a UK national diagnostic algorithm for UTI. The diagnosis of UTI is produced or withheld as a post hoc rationalisation of a prior decision whether to prescribe antibiotics or not. Work in the sociology of diagnosis has already noted that diagnostic steps are often re-ordered by health-care professionals taking diverse actions in the best interest of their patients. This article contributes an argument that ordering diagnostic work around antimicrobial stewardship agendas has the effect of narrowing possible actions. Exploring the consequences and effects of doing diagnosis in this way for different groups, I argue that a greater creativity about what could be done to care for painful bladders could be found in a return to more clinical ways of working.
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- Eleanor Kashouris
- School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
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Greene HC, Makovi K, Abdul-Mumin R, Bansal A, Frimpong JA. Challenges in the distribution of antimicrobial medications in community dispensaries in Accra, Ghana. PLoS One 2024; 19:e0281699. [PMID: 38809832 PMCID: PMC11135707 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0281699] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2023] [Accepted: 05/02/2024] [Indexed: 05/31/2024] Open
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INTRODUCTION The dispensation of medicines in some low- and middle-income countries is often carried out by private vendors operating under constrained conditions. The aim of this study was to understand the challenges reported by employees of dispensaries, specifically, chemical and herbal shops and pharmacies in Accra, Ghana. Our objectives were twofold: (1) to assess challenges faced by medicine vendors related to dispensing antimicrobials (antibiotic and antimalarial medications), and (2) to identify opportunities for improving their stewardship of antimicrobials. METHODS Data were collected in 79 dispensaries throughout Accra, in 2021, using a survey questionnaire. We used open-ended questions, grounded on an adapted socioecological model of public health, to analyze these data and determine challenges faced by respondents. RESULTS We identified multiple, interlocking challenges faced by medicine vendors. Many of these relate to challenges of antimicrobial stewardship (following evidence-based practices when dispensing medicines). Overall, medicine vendors frequently reported challenges at the Customer and Community levels. These included strained interactions with customers and the prohibitive costs of medications. The consequences of these challenges reverberated and manifested through all levels of the socioecological model of public health (Entity, Customer, Community, Global). DISCUSSION The safe and effective distribution of medications was truncated by strained interactions, often related to the cost of medicines and gaps in knowledge. While addressing these challenges requires multifaceted approaches, we identified several areas that, if intervened upon, could unlock the great potential of antimicrobal stewardship. The effective and efficient implementation of key interventions could facilitate efforts spearheaded by medicine vendors and leverage the benefits of their role as health educators and service providers. CONCLUSION Addressing barriers faced by medicine vendors would provide an opportunity to significantly improve the provision of medications, and ultimately population health. Such efforts will likely expand access to populations who may otherwise be unable to access medications and treatment in formal institutions of care such as hospitals. Our findings also highlight the broad range of care provided by shopkeepers and vendors at dispensaries. These findings suggest that the meaningful engagement of dispensaries as valued conduits of community health is a promising pathway for interventions aiming to improve antimicrobial stewardship.
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- Hannah Camille Greene
- Social Science Division, New York University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
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- Social Science Division, New York University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
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- Department of Biochemistry and Forensic Sciences, School of Chemical and Biochemical Sciences, C.K Tedam University of Technology & Applied Sciences, Navrongo, Ghana
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- Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
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- Social Science Division, New York University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
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Papale F, Not F, Bapteste É, Haraoui LP. The evosystem: A centerpiece for evolutionary studies. Bioessays 2024; 46:e2300169. [PMID: 38344836 DOI: 10.1002/bies.202300169] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/06/2023] [Revised: 01/12/2024] [Accepted: 01/15/2024] [Indexed: 02/25/2024]
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In this paper, we redefine the target of evolutionary explanations by proposing the "evosystem" as an alternative to populations, lineages and species. Evosystems account for changes in the distribution of heritable variation within individual Darwinian populations (evolution by natural selection, drift, or constructive neutral evolution), but also for changes in the networks of interactions within or between Darwinian populations and changes in the abiotic environment (whether these changes are caused by the organic entities or not). The evosystem can thereby become a centerpiece for a redefined evolutionary science, that is, evolutionary studies, that apprehends through a single framework the variety of evolutionary processes that lie at various scales. To illustrate the importance of this broadened perspective on evolution, we use a case of antimicrobial resistance evolution: the spread of the blaNDM gene family and the related resistance to carbapenem antibiotics observed globally, and show how evolutionary studies can contribute to answering contemporary socially relevant challenges.
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- François Papale
- Department of Microbiology and Infectious Disease, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada
- Faculty of Philosophy, Université Laval, Quebec, Canada
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- CNRS, Adaptation and Diversity in Marine Environment laboratory (AD2M-UMR7144), Sorbonne University, Roscoff, France
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- Institut de Systématique, Évolution, Biodiversité (ISYEB), Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, EPHE, Université Des Antilles, Paris, France
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- Department of Microbiology and Infectious Disease, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada
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de Oliveira AS, Muniz Seif EJ, da Silva Junior PI. In silico prospection of receptors associated with the biological activity of U1-SCTRX-lg1a: an antimicrobial peptide isolated from the venom of Loxosceles gaucho. In Silico Pharmacol 2024; 12:15. [PMID: 38476933 PMCID: PMC10925584 DOI: 10.1007/s40203-024-00190-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2023] [Accepted: 01/11/2024] [Indexed: 03/14/2024] Open
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The emergence of antibiotic-resistant pathogens generates impairment to human health. U1-SCTRX-lg1a is a peptide isolated from a phospholipase D extracted from the spider venom of Loxosceles gaucho with antimicrobial activity against Gram-negative bacteria (between 1.15 and 4.6 μM). The aim of this study was to suggest potential receptors associated with the antimicrobial activity of U1-SCTRX-lg1a using in silico bioinformatics tools. The search for potential targets of U1-SCRTX-lg1a was performed using the PharmMapper server. Molecular docking between U1-SCRTX-lg1a and the receptor was performed using PatchDock software. The prediction of ligand sites for each receptor was conducted using the PDBSum server. Chimera 1.6 software was used to perform molecular dynamics simulations only for the best dock score receptor. In addition, U1-SCRTX-lg1a and native ligand interactions were compared using AutoDock Vina software. Finally, predicted interactions were compared with the ligand site previously described in the literature. The bioprospecting of U1-SCRTX-lg1a resulted in the identification of three hundred (300) diverse targets (Table S1), forty-nine (49) of which were intracellular proteins originating from Gram-negative microorganisms (Table S2). Docking results indicate Scores (10,702 to 6066), Areas (1498.70 to 728.40) and ACEs (417.90 to - 152.8) values. Among these, NAD + NH3-dependent synthetase (PDB ID: 1wxi) showed a dock score of 9742, area of 1223.6 and ACE of 38.38 in addition to presenting a Normalized Fit score of 8812 on PharmMapper server. Analysis of the interaction of ligands and receptors suggests that the peptide derived from brown spider venom can interact with residues SER48 and THR160. Furthermore, the C terminus (- 7.0 score) has greater affinity for the receptor than the N terminus (- 7.7 score). The molecular dynamics assay shown that free energy value for the protein complex of - 214,890.21 kJ/mol, whereas with rigid docking, this value was - 29.952.8 sugerindo that after the molecular dynamics simulation, the complex exhibits a more favorable energy value compared to the previous state. The in silico bioprospecting of receptors suggests that U1-SCRTX-lg1a may interfere with NAD + production in Escherichia coli, a Gram-negative bacterium, altering the homeostasis of the microorganism and impairing growth. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s40203-024-00190-8.
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- André Souza de Oliveira
- Applied Toxinology Laboratory, Butantan Institute, São Paulo, SP Brazil
- Post Graduate Program of Biotechnology, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, SP Brazil
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- Applied Toxinology Laboratory, Butantan Institute, São Paulo, SP Brazil
- Post Graduate Program of Molecular Biology, Federal University of São Paulo, São Paulo, SP Brazil
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- Applied Toxinology Laboratory, Butantan Institute, São Paulo, SP Brazil
- Post Graduate Program of Biotechnology, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, SP Brazil
- Post Graduate Program of Molecular Biology, Federal University of São Paulo, São Paulo, SP Brazil
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Steyn HF, White LJ, Hilton KLF, Hiscock JR, Pohl CH. Supramolecular Self-Associating Amphiphiles Inhibit Biofilm Formation by the Critical Pathogens, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Candida albicans. ACS OMEGA 2024; 9:1770-1785. [PMID: 38222503 PMCID: PMC10785623 DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.3c08425] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/2023] [Revised: 12/05/2023] [Accepted: 12/08/2023] [Indexed: 01/16/2024]
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In 2019, 4.95 million deaths were directly attributed to antimicrobial-resistant bacterial infections globally. In addition, the mortality associated with fungal infections is estimated at 1.7 million annually, with many of these deaths attributed to species that are no longer susceptible to traditional therapeutic regimes. Herein, we demonstrate the use of a novel class of supramolecular self-associating amphiphilic (SSA) salts as antimicrobial agents against the critical pathogens Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Candida albicans. We also identify preliminary structure-activity relationships for this class of compound that will aid the development of next-generation SSAs demonstrating enhanced antibiofilm activity. To gain insight into the possible mode of action for these agents, a series of microscopy studies were performed, taking advantage of the intrinsic fluorescent nature of benzothiazole-substituted SSAs. Analysis of these data showed that the SSAs interact with the cell surface and that a benzothiazole-containing SSA inhibits hyphal formation by C. albicans.
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- Hendrik
J. F. Steyn
- Department
of Microbiology and Biochemistry, University
of the Free State, Bloemfontein, Free State 9301, South Africa
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- School
of Chemistry and Forensic Science, University
of Kent, Kent, Canterbury CT2 7NH, United Kingdom
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- School
of Chemistry and Forensic Science, University
of Kent, Kent, Canterbury CT2 7NH, United Kingdom
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- School
of Chemistry and Forensic Science, University
of Kent, Kent, Canterbury CT2 7NH, United Kingdom
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- Department
of Microbiology and Biochemistry, University
of the Free State, Bloemfontein, Free State 9301, South Africa
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Pitchforth E, Gemma-Clare A, Smith E, Taylor J, Rayner T, Lichten C, d'Angelo C, Gradmann C, Berridge V, Bertscher A, Allel K. What and how can we learn from complex global problems for antimicrobial resistance policy? A comparative study combining historical and foresight approaches. J Glob Antimicrob Resist 2023; 35:110-121. [PMID: 37714379 DOI: 10.1016/j.jgar.2023.08.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2023] [Revised: 08/17/2023] [Accepted: 08/30/2023] [Indexed: 09/17/2023] Open
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OBJECTIVES To (i) develop a methodology for using historical and comparative perspectives to inform policy and (ii) provide evidence for antimicrobial-resistance (AMR) policymaking by drawing on lessons from climate change and tobacco control. METHODS Using a qualitative design, we systematically examined two other complex, large-scale policy issues-climate change and tobacco control-to identify what relevance to AMR can be learned from how these issues have evolved over time. During 2018-2020, we employed a five-stage approach to conducting an exploratory study involving a review of secondary historical analysis, identification of drivers of change, prioritisation of the identified drivers, scenario generation and elicitation of possible policy responses. We sought to disrupt more 'traditional' policy and research spaces to create an alternative where, stimulated by historical analysis, academics (including historians) and policymakers could come together to challenge norms and practices and think creatively about AMR policy design. RESULTS An iterative process of analysis and engagement resulted in lessons for AMR policy concerning persistent evidence gaps and uncertainty, the need for cross-sector involvement and a collective effort through global governance, the demand for new interventions through more investment in research and innovation, and recognising the dynamic relationship between social change and policy to change people's attitudes and behaviours are crucial towards tackling AMR. CONCLUSION We draw on new methodological lessons around the pragmatism of future- and policy-oriented approaches incorporating robust historical and comparative analysis. The study demonstrates proof of concept and offers a reproducible method to advance further methodology, including transferrable policies that could tackle health problems, such as AMR.
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- Emma Pitchforth
- Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK.
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- School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
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- Faculty of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
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- Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK; Institute for Global Health, University College London, London, UK; Department of Disease Control, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
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Sola GS, Costa MRN, Silva TA, Costa MRL, Souza RR, Peters LP, Carvalho CM, Silva BKA. Antimicrobial potential of extracts from leaves and culms of an Amazonian native bamboo. BRAZ J BIOL 2023; 83:e277199. [PMID: 38055582 DOI: 10.1590/1519-6984.277199] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/08/2023] [Accepted: 10/08/2023] [Indexed: 12/08/2023] Open
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Antibiotics have shown less efficiency against resistance of pathogenic microorganisms. As a result, research centers have sought therapeutic alternatives against multidrug resistance of bacteria to antibiotics, one of which is using plant extracts. Bamboo extracts are used for several medicinal purposes. This study aimed to evaluate the antibacterial potential of hydroalcoholic extracts of culms and leaves of the species Guadua aff. lynnclarkiae on strains of Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus pneumoniae, and Klebsiella pneumoniae. We evaluated the minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) and the minimum bactericidal concentration (MBC). Only the leaves of G. aff. lynnclarkiae showed a bactericidal effect for all tested strains with MBC ranging from 1.55 mg ml-1 to 25 mg ml-1. The culms had bacteriostatic action with MIC ranging from 1.55 mg ml-1 to 6.25 mg ml-1, and bactericidal action at the concentration of 6.25 mg ml-1 only for S. aureus. This study provides bases for the use of this Amazonian native bamboo in bioprospecting.
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- G S Sola
- Universidade Federal do Acre, Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Natureza, Rio Branco, AC, Brasil
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- Universidade Federal do Acre, Programa de Pós-graduação em Ciência, Inovação e Tecnologia para a Amazônia, Rio Branco, AC, Brasil
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- Universidade Federal do Acre, Programa de Pós-graduação em Ciência, Inovação e Tecnologia para a Amazônia, Rio Branco, AC, Brasil
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- Universidade Federal do Acre, Programa de Pós-graduação em Ciência, Inovação e Tecnologia para a Amazônia, Rio Branco, AC, Brasil
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- Universidade Federal do Acre, Programa de Pós-graduação em Ciência, Inovação e Tecnologia para a Amazônia, Rio Branco, AC, Brasil
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- Universidade Federal do Acre, Centro de Ciências da Saúde e Desporto, Rio Branco, AC, Brasil
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- Universidade Federal do Acre, Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Natureza, Rio Branco, AC, Brasil
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- Universidade Federal do Acre, Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Natureza, Rio Branco, AC, Brasil
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Yang M, Liu M, Shen G, Gong Y, Wang Z, Ji D, Li J, Yuan M, Wang Q. Preparation and Characterization of an Antibrowning Nanosized Ag-CeO 2 Composite with Synergistic Antibacterial Ability. MATERIALS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2023; 16:5505. [PMID: 37629795 PMCID: PMC10456288 DOI: 10.3390/ma16165505] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2023] [Revised: 07/31/2023] [Accepted: 08/03/2023] [Indexed: 08/27/2023]
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Nanosized Ag and CeO2 particles obtained through the hydrothermal method were physically mixed to obtain composite antibacterial agents. The comparative experiments of antibacterial properties showed that the antibacterial activity of the nanocomposites was improved compared to the nanoparticles alone, which indicated that the synergistic antibacterial effect existed between Ag and CeO2. On the one hand, ICP-MS results showed that the existence of CeO2 suppressed the silver ion release rate and provided the composite with the ability of antibrowning; on the other, EPR data indicated that more hydroxyl radicals (·OH) were generated by the interfacial interaction between nanosized Ag and nanosized CeO2. Hence, for the Ag-CeO2 composite antibacterial agent, hydroxyl radicals played an important role in causing bacterial death.
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- Min Yang
- School of Chemistry and Biological Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China; (M.Y.); (J.L.)
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Standardization and Measurement for Nanotechnology, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Beijing 100190, China; (M.L.); (G.S.); (Y.G.); (Z.W.)
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Standardization and Measurement for Nanotechnology, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Beijing 100190, China; (M.L.); (G.S.); (Y.G.); (Z.W.)
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Standardization and Measurement for Nanotechnology, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Beijing 100190, China; (M.L.); (G.S.); (Y.G.); (Z.W.)
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Standardization and Measurement for Nanotechnology, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Beijing 100190, China; (M.L.); (G.S.); (Y.G.); (Z.W.)
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- Inner Mongolia XinYu Rare Earth Functional Materials Co., Ltd., Baotou 014060, China;
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- School of Chemistry and Biological Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China; (M.Y.); (J.L.)
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- Bgrimm Mtc Technology Co., Ltd., Beijing 102628, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Standardization and Measurement for Nanotechnology, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Beijing 100190, China; (M.L.); (G.S.); (Y.G.); (Z.W.)
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Alshiekheid MA. Evaluation of the Antibacterial Activities of Mangrove Honeybee Propolis Extract and the Identification of Transpeptidase and Transglycosylase as Targets for New Antibiotics Using Molecular Docking. Antibiotics (Basel) 2023; 12:1197. [PMID: 37508293 PMCID: PMC10376730 DOI: 10.3390/antibiotics12071197] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/03/2023] [Revised: 07/10/2023] [Accepted: 07/14/2023] [Indexed: 07/30/2023] Open
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Developing new antibiotics is a critical area of research that grows as a result of the increasing problem of antibiotic resistance. Scientists search for new antibiotics by screening natural sources such as soil, plants, and marine environments. One of the iconic plants in the marine environment is the mangrove, which is a source of honeybee propolis. Propolis collected from the grey mangrove Avicennia marina on Tarout Island, the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia, was used to evaluate antibacterial activities against three pathogenic bacteria: gram-negative Enterobacter cloacae (RCMB 001(1) ATCC® 23355TM), gram-positive methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (clinical isolate), and Streptococcus mutans Clark (RCMB 017(1) ATCC® 25175TM). The results indicate the effectiveness of the methanolic extract of such propolis. The chemical composition of this extract was analyzed using LC-MS, and four compounds were identified (alginic acid, carrageenan, fucoxanthin, cycloeudesmol). Their modes of action were evaluated against bacterial cell walls. Bacterial transpeptidase and transglycosylase on the surface are basic for cell divider amalgamation, and numerous antimicrobials have been created to target these compounds. Molecular docking was employed to predict the interactions of four compounds and S. aureus to predict interaction. Alginic acid was found to be the best interaction with a score of -7.44 Kcal/mol with distance ranges between 2.86 and 3.64 and RMSD refined below 2 Å. Carrageenan with -6.64 Kcal/mol and a distance of 3.05 and 2.87 came second. Then, fucoxanthin with -6.57 Kcal/mol and a distance of 1.4. Finally, cycloeudesmol with a score of -4.6 Kcal/mol and a distance of 2.87 showed the least activity. The first three compounds interacted effectively and could form very promising chemicals that could be used one day against pathogenic bacteria in the future.
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- Maha A Alshiekheid
- Department of Botany and Microbiology, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia
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Hwang K. Sorting sex, controlling sex: Masui Kiyoshi's chicken research and experimental system, 1915-1950. HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF THE LIFE SCIENCES 2023; 45:24. [PMID: 37314588 DOI: 10.1007/s40656-023-00579-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2022] [Accepted: 05/02/2023] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Masui Kiyoshi (1887-1981), a prominent Japanese geneticist, is best known for inventing the sex-sorting method of chicks and his contributions to experimental genetics in Japan. Masui drew inspiration from Goldschmidt's sex determination theory and used chickens, transplantation techniques, and his own "chick sexing" methods in his scientific work. This paper examines the intersection of genetics and industrial breeding by tracing the evolution of Masui's experimental systems. During the early 20th century, poultry farming emerged as a significant industry in Japan, resulting in the development of standardized organisms and techniques for chicken farming. Masui, a professor at Tokyo Imperial University, collaborated with the Imperial Zootechnical Experimental Station to use these organisms as models for sex determination theory while exploring their further industrial possibilities. First, the paper show how Masui viewed chickens as epistemological objects and transformed his anatomical discoveries into standardized industrial practices. Next, it describes how Masui's collaboration with German geneticist Richard Goldschmidt led to new academic questions about sex determination mechanisms and how he integrated his knowledge of chicken physiology into his research on "experimental gynandromorphs" to elaborate the theories. Lastly, the paper discusses the biotechnological ideals that Masui aimed to achieve and how they were co-constructed with his mass-production method of intersex chickens from the early 1930s. The trajectory of Masui's experimental systems highlights the dynamic relationship between agroindustry and genetics in the early twentieth century and demonstrates the 'biology of history' in which the biological processes of organisms intertwine with their epistemological history.
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- Kyoryen Hwang
- Department of Science Studies, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea.
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Lappé M, Hein RJ. The Temporal Politics of Placenta Epigenetics: Bodies, Environments and Time. BODY & SOCIETY 2023; 29:49-76. [PMID: 37621557 PMCID: PMC10449375 DOI: 10.1177/1357034x211068883] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/26/2023]
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This article builds on feminist scholarship on new biologies and the body to describe the temporal politics of epigenetic research related to the human placenta. Drawing on interviews with scientists and observations at conferences and in laboratories, we argue that epigenetic research simultaneously positions placenta tissue as a way back into maternal and fetal bodies following birth, as a lens onto children's future well-being, and as a bankable resource for ongoing research. Our findings reflect how developmental models of health have helped recast the placenta as an agential organ that is uniquely responsive to environments during pregnancy and capable of embodying biological evidence about the effects of in utero experiences after birth. We develop the concept of 'recursive embodiment' to describe how placenta epigenetics is reimagining relationships between bodies and environments across developmental, epigenetic, and generational time, and the impacts this has for experiences of pregnancy and responsibilities related to children's health.
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Kelty CM. The Ecological Origins and Consequences of the Rodent Bait Station: From WWII Britain to Contemporary California. Med Anthropol 2023; 42:397-414. [PMID: 37522961 DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2023.2213390] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/01/2023]
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This article describes the origin of the rodent bait station, a globally distributed system for controlling rats, currently creating a secondary ecological crisis affecting wildlife who eat rats that have eaten the poison. I argue that this system is tied to settler colonial places like California and that banning poison will not address the crisis. It details the history of this box as a scientific ecological solution to rat control, created by Charles Elton and his research group during WWII. I pair this account with an account of contemporary science into the ecological crisis of rodenticides.
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- Christopher M Kelty
- Institute for Society and Genetics, University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA
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Coque TM, Cantón R, Pérez-Cobas AE, Fernández-de-Bobadilla MD, Baquero F. Antimicrobial Resistance in the Global Health Network: Known Unknowns and Challenges for Efficient Responses in the 21st Century. Microorganisms 2023; 11:1050. [PMID: 37110473 PMCID: PMC10144039 DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms11041050] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 32.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2022] [Revised: 03/28/2023] [Accepted: 03/31/2023] [Indexed: 04/29/2023] Open
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Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the Global Health challenges of the 21st century. The inclusion of AMR on the global map parallels the scientific, technological, and organizational progress of the healthcare system and the socioeconomic changes of the last 100 years. Available knowledge about AMR has mostly come from large healthcare institutions in high-income countries and is scattered in studies across various fields, focused on patient safety (infectious diseases), transmission pathways and pathogen reservoirs (molecular epidemiology), the extent of the problem at a population level (public health), their management and cost (health economics), cultural issues (community psychology), and events associated with historical periods (history of science). However, there is little dialogue between the aspects that facilitate the development, spread, and evolution of AMR and various stakeholders (patients, clinicians, public health professionals, scientists, economic sectors, and funding agencies). This study consists of four complementary sections. The first reviews the socioeconomic factors that have contributed to building the current Global Healthcare system, the scientific framework in which AMR has traditionally been approached in such a system, and the novel scientific and organizational challenges of approaching AMR in the fourth globalization scenario. The second discusses the need to reframe AMR in the current public health and global health contexts. Given that the implementation of policies and guidelines are greatly influenced by AMR information from surveillance systems, in the third section, we review the unit of analysis ("the what" and "the who") and the indicators (the "operational units of surveillance") used in AMR and discuss the factors that affect the validity, reliability, and comparability of the information to be applied in various healthcare (primary, secondary, and tertiary), demographic, and economic contexts (local, regional, global, and inter-sectorial levels). Finally, we discuss the disparities and similarities between distinct stakeholders' objectives and the gaps and challenges of combatting AMR at various levels. In summary, this is a comprehensive but not exhaustive revision of the known unknowns about how to analyze the heterogeneities of hosts, microbes, and hospital patches, the role of surrounding ecosystems, and the challenges they represent for surveillance, antimicrobial stewardship, and infection control programs, which are the traditional cornerstones for controlling AMR in human health.
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- Teresa M. Coque
- Servicio de Microbiología, Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal, Instituto Ramón y Cajal de Investigación Sanitaria (IRYCIS), 28034 Madrid, Spain
- CIBER en Enfermedades Infecciosas (CIBERINFEC), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, 28029 Madrid, Spain
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- Servicio de Microbiología, Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal, Instituto Ramón y Cajal de Investigación Sanitaria (IRYCIS), 28034 Madrid, Spain
- CIBER en Enfermedades Infecciosas (CIBERINFEC), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, 28029 Madrid, Spain
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- Servicio de Microbiología, Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal, Instituto Ramón y Cajal de Investigación Sanitaria (IRYCIS), 28034 Madrid, Spain
- CIBER en Enfermedades Infecciosas (CIBERINFEC), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, 28029 Madrid, Spain
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- Servicio de Microbiología, Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal, Instituto Ramón y Cajal de Investigación Sanitaria (IRYCIS), 28034 Madrid, Spain
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- Servicio de Microbiología, Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal, Instituto Ramón y Cajal de Investigación Sanitaria (IRYCIS), 28034 Madrid, Spain
- CIBER en Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, 28029 Madrid, Spain
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Boccia G, Di Spirito F, D’Ambrosio F, Di Palo MP, Giordano F, Amato M. Local and Systemic Antibiotics in Peri-Implantitis Management: An Umbrella Review. Antibiotics (Basel) 2023; 12:114. [PMID: 36671315 PMCID: PMC9854519 DOI: 10.3390/antibiotics12010114] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/24/2022] [Revised: 01/03/2023] [Accepted: 01/05/2023] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
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The present umbrella review aimed to characterize the type and regimen of antibiotics administered locally and/or systemically, alone or in combination with surgical and nonsurgical treatments, for peri-implantitis and to evaluate and compare the associated clinical, radiographic, and crevicular peri-implant outcomes. The secondary objective was to determine the most effective antibiotic type, route of administration, regimen, and protocols (antibiotics alone or in combination with other approaches) for treating peri-implantitis. The study protocol, which was developed in advance under the PRISMA statement, was registered at PROSPERO (CRD42022373957). BioMed Central, Scopus, MEDLINE/PubMed, the Cochrane Library databases, and the PROSPERO registry were searched for systematic reviews through 15 November 2022. Of the 708 records found, seven reviews were included; three were judged of a critically low and four of low quality through the AMSTAR 2 tool. Locally administered antibiotics alone or as an adjunct to surgical or nonsurgical treatments for peri-implantitis showed favorable outcomes, albeit with limited evidence. The administration of systemically-delivered antibiotics in combination with nonsurgical or surgical treatments remained questionable. Local plus systemic antibiotics have not been shown to have durable efficacy. Due to the heterogeneity of reported antibiotic types, routes, regimens, and protocols, no definitive conclusions could be drawn regarding the most effective antibiotic use in treating peri-implantitis.
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- Department of Medicine, Surgery and Dentistry, University of Salerno, 84081 Baronissi, Italy
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Dennis F. Chemical species: the art and politics of living with(out) drugs after addiction. BIOSOCIETIES 2022; 18:545-566. [PMID: 38800556 PMCID: PMC11116112 DOI: 10.1057/s41292-022-00281-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 07/23/2022] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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We live within and are made up of ever-changing chemical flows. Witnessing a "chemical turn" in the social sciences, this article asks what a chemical reading of drugs and bodies can offer an understanding of drug dependency and recovery. Where chemicals render bodies "molecular" (Deleuze and Guattari, 1987), they open them up to more intimate forms of connection that extend our understanding of drug-body relationships beyond limiting categories such as addiction. Rather than a chemical drug entering a biological body, there are chemical interactions that expand the boundaries of where one ends and the other begins. While chemicals have long been a preoccupation in neurological models of addiction, they are seldom taken up in sociological studies of these concerns. Drawing on a series of body-mapping workshops with people in drug recovery/treatment in London, UK, to track these chemical bodies, this article explores the art of living a chemically transformed life. This is an art that thinks with Isabelle Stengers' (in Stengers and Savransky, 2018) notion of the word to include "not paying attention" as a mode of "paying attention to what may lurk" in living with the ongoing effects of drugs in unequally entangled worlds.
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- Fay Dennis
- Goldsmiths, University of London, 10.01 Warmington Tower, 8 Lewisham Way, London, SE14 6NW UK
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Broom A, Peterie M, Kenny K, Broom J, Kelly-Hanku A, Lafferty L, Treloar C, Applegate T. Vulnerability and antimicrobial resistance. CRITICAL PUBLIC HEALTH 2022. [DOI: 10.1080/09581596.2022.2123733] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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- Alex Broom
- Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies, School of Social and Political Sciences, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
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- Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies, School of Social and Political Sciences, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
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- Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies, School of Social and Political Sciences, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
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- Sunshine Coast Health Institute, Birtinya, Australia
- Greater Brisbane Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
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- The Kirby Institute, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
- Papua New Guinea Institute for Medical Research, Goroka, Papua New Guinea
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- The Kirby Institute, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
- Centre for Social Research in Health, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
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- Centre for Social Research in Health, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
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- The Kirby Institute, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
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Willis JA, Cheburkanov V, Chen S, Soares JM, Kassab G, Blanco KC, Bagnato VS, de Figueiredo P, Yakovlev VV. Breaking down antibiotic resistance in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: Combining antimicrobial photodynamic and antibiotic treatments. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2022; 119:e2208378119. [PMID: 36037346 PMCID: PMC9457041 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2208378119] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2022] [Accepted: 07/27/2022] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The widespread use of antibiotics drives the evolution of antimicrobial-resistant bacteria (ARB), threatening patients and healthcare professionals. Therefore, the development of novel strategies to combat resistance is recognized as a global healthcare priority. The two methods to combat ARB are development of new antibiotics or reduction in existing resistances. Development of novel antibiotics is a laborious and slow-progressing task that is no longer a safe reserve against looming risks. In this research, we suggest a method for reducing resistance to extend the efficacious lifetime of current antibiotics. Antimicrobial photodynamic therapy (aPDT) is used to generate reactive oxygen species (ROS) via the photoactivation of a photosensitizer. ROS then nonspecifically damage cellular components, leading to general impairment and cell death. Here, we test the hypothesis that concurrent treatment of bacteria with antibiotics and aPDT achieves an additive effect in the elimination of ARB. Performing aPDT with the photosensitizer methylene blue in combination with antibiotics chloramphenicol and tetracycline results in significant reductions in resistance for two methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) strains, USA300 and RN4220. Additional resistant S. aureus strain and antibiotic combinations reveal similar results. Taken together, these results suggest that concurrent aPDT consistently decreases S. aureus resistance by improving susceptibility to antibiotic treatment. In turn, this development exhibits an alternative to overcome some of the growing MRSA challenge.
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- Jace A. Willis
- Biomedical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77840
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- Department of Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunology, Texas A&M Health Science Center, Bryan, TX 77807
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- Institute of Physics of Sao Carlos, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Carlos 13566-590, Brazil
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- Institute of Physics of Sao Carlos, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Carlos 13566-590, Brazil
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- Biomedical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77840
- Institute of Physics of Sao Carlos, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Carlos 13566-590, Brazil
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- Biomedical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77840
- Institute of Physics of Sao Carlos, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Carlos 13566-590, Brazil
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- Department of Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunology, Texas A&M Health Science Center, Bryan, TX 77807
- Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843
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Adherence to Antibiotic Prescription of Dental Patients: The Other Side of the Antimicrobial Resistance. Healthcare (Basel) 2022; 10:healthcare10091636. [PMID: 36141247 PMCID: PMC9498878 DOI: 10.3390/healthcare10091636] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2022] [Revised: 08/23/2022] [Accepted: 08/24/2022] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Since non-adherence to antibiotic therapy can cause several problems, including antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and treatment failures, the present study evaluated adherence to oral antibiotic therapy and AMR awareness among consecutively enrolled dental patients. Data concerning age, gender, socioeconomic status, education level, cohabitation, and general health were retrieved from medical records. AMR awareness was investigated through direct questions and adherence to antibiotic treatment was assessed through a modified Italian version of the Morisky medical scale-8 items. Participants’ characteristics were analyzed in relation to treatment adherence and AMR, using a Χ2 independence test (significance level of α <0.1). Dental patients generally showed a low (51.82%) adherence to oral antibiotic therapy, and medium and high adherence was reported only by 29.37% and 18.81% of participants. Treatment adherence was similar in relation to participants’ gender and age but significantly lower in subjects with only secondary school graduation and higher in participants with higher education levels. Non-cohabitants were significantly more adherent than cohabitants. AMR awareness was declared by 42.15% of males and 38.70% of females: 56.52% of dental patients aware of AMR were 18−38 years old, 35.20% were 39−59 years old, and 26.95% were aged between 60 and 80. Further studies are needed to develop adequate strategies, expanding dental patients’ knowledge of AMR, thus optimizing the benefits and reducing the risks of antibiotic administration in dental patients.
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Attitudes towards Antibiotic Prescription and Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness among Italian Dentists: What Are the Milestones? Healthcare (Basel) 2022; 10:healthcare10081585. [PMID: 36011242 PMCID: PMC9408165 DOI: 10.3390/healthcare10081585] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/2022] [Revised: 08/16/2022] [Accepted: 08/17/2022] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Antimicrobial resistance is a growing phenomenon, often associated with the improper prescription of antibiotics, prescribed by those who do not follow the guidelines for antibiotic stewardship. The aim of this study was to evaluate the current attitude towards antibiotic prescribing and antimicrobial resistance awareness among Italian dentists. An online questionnaire was distributed to Italian dentists from September to December 2021. The questionnaire was composed of three main sections. The first part was focused on demographic characteristics, the second part on prescription habits, and the third part on the dentists’ knowledge regarding the phenomenon of antimicrobial resistance. A chi-square test was used to find associations between different variables. The level of significance was set at p < 0.05. A total of 382 dentists completed the questionnaire. The main reasons for antibiotic prescribing were for abscesses (39.6%), extractions (24.5%), and pulpitis (14.1%). The majority of participants (85.3%) reported prescribing macrolides in the case of a penicillin allergy. Most dentists (98.9%) were aware of the antimicrobial resistance phenomenon, but only 7.4% of them consulted the guidelines for prescribing antibiotics. This study demonstrates that the same trend exists in Italy as in other countries in terms of the high prevalence of misuse and overuse of antibiotics, and that Italian dentists utilize a range of antibiotic management strategies.
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Meagher KM, Watson S, Suh GA, Virk A. The New Precision Stewards? J Pers Med 2022; 12:jpm12081308. [PMID: 36013256 PMCID: PMC9409858 DOI: 10.3390/jpm12081308] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2022] [Revised: 07/26/2022] [Accepted: 08/04/2022] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The precision health era is likely to reduce and respond to antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Our stewardship and precision efforts share terminology, seeking to deliver the “right drug, at the right dose, at the right time.” Already, rapid diagnostic testing, phylogenetic surveillance, and real-time outbreak response provide just a few examples of molecular advances we dub “precision stewardship.” However, the AMR causal factors range from the molecular to that of global health policy. Mirroring the cross-sectoral nature of AMR science, the research addressing the ethical, legal and social implications (ELSI) of AMR ranges across academic scholarship. As the rise of AMR is accompanied by an escalating sense of its moral and social significance, what is needed is a parallel field of study. In this paper, we offer a gap analysis of this terrain, or an agenda for “the ELSI of precision stewardship.” In the first section, we discuss the accomplishments of a multi-decade U.S. national investment in ELSI research attending to the advances in human genetics. In the next section, we provide an overview of distinct ELSI topics pertinent to AMR. The distinctiveness of an ELSI agenda for precision stewardship suggests new opportunities for collaboration to build the stewardship teams of the future.
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- Karen M. Meagher
- Biomedical Ethics Research Program, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA
- Correspondence: ; Tel.: +1-507-293-9528
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- Biomedical Ethics Research Program, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA
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- Division of Public Health, Infectious Disease, and Occupational Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA
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- Division of Public Health, Infectious Disease, and Occupational Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA
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Hutchison C. Wars and sweets: microbes, medicines and other moderns in and beyond the(ir) antibiotic era. MEDICAL HUMANITIES 2022; 48:medhum-2021-012366. [PMID: 35948395 PMCID: PMC9411908 DOI: 10.1136/medhum-2021-012366] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 07/01/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Once upon a time, many of us moderns dreamt that our future was bright, squeaky clean, germ-free. Now, we increasingly fear that bacterial resistance movements and hordes of viruses are cancelling our medicated performances, and threatening life as many of us have come to know it. In order for our modern antibiotic theatre of war to go on, we pray for salvation through our intensive surveillance of microbes, crusades for more rational antibiotic wars, increased recruitment of resistance fighters and development of antibiotic armaments through greater investment in our medical-industrial-war complex. But not all of us are in favour of the promise of perpetual antimicrobial wars, no matter how careful or rational their proponents aspire to be. An increasing vocal and diverse opposition has amassed in academic journals, newspapers and other fields of practice denouncing medicalisation and pharamceuticalisation of our daily lives, as well as our modern medicine as overly militaristic. In this paper, rather than simply rehearsing many of these well-made and meaning debates to convert you to yet another cause, I enrol them in redescriptions of our modern medical performances in the hope of awakening you from your aseptic dream. What follows is my invitation for you to re-enact our mythic antibiotic era in all its martial g(l)ory. I promise that it will bring you no physically harm, yet I can't promise it will leave your beliefs unscathed, as you follow its playful redescription of how our objective scientific descriptions, clinical prescriptions, economic strategies, political mandates and military orders, not to mention our warspeak, have always been deeply entangled with triumphs and devastations of The(ir) Great anti-Microbial Wars (aka our antibiotic era).
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- Coll Hutchison
- Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Faculty of Public Health and Policy, London, UK
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Topical liquid formulation of bacteriophages for metered-dose spray delivery. Eur J Pharm Biopharm 2022; 177:1-8. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ejpb.2022.05.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2021] [Revised: 04/29/2022] [Accepted: 05/19/2022] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Yesil C, Yalcin AN, Ogunc D, Ongut G, Ozhak B, Colak D, Er H, Sarıtas ZE. Use of colistin with rifampicin, trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole and teicoplanin in acinetobacter mouse infection model. Future Microbiol 2022; 17:665-671. [DOI: 10.2217/fmb-2021-0216] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Background: Infections with multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria such as Acinetobacter baumannii are major cause of morbidity and mortality. Colistin is used commonly to treat these infections. In this study, we evaluated the efficacy of different colistin combinations in a A. baumannii infection mouse model. Materials & methods: An A. baumannii mouse infection model was developed in 150 experimental animals. Treatment groups were as follows: colistin, colistin + rifampicin, colistin + trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole, colistin + teicoplanin and a control group. The outcome was bacterial burden in the lung and liver tissues. The treatment groups were subdivided into 24-, 48- and 72-h groups. Results: Colistin and combinations reduce the A. baumannii burden significantly in lung and liver tissues compared with the control group. Compared with colistin alone colistin + rifampicin and colistin + TMP-SMX provided significantly better reduction in the bacterial burden. Conclusion: These results may suggest that rifampicin and TMP-SMX combination with colistin may have a potential role in the treatment of A. baumannii infections.
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- Akdeniz University Medical School, Department of Infectious Diseases & Clinical Microbiology, Antalya, Turkey
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- Akdeniz University Medical School, Department of Medical Microbiology, Antalya, Turkey
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- Akdeniz University Medical School, Department of Medical Microbiology, Antalya, Turkey
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- Akdeniz University Medical School, Department of Medical Microbiology, Antalya, Turkey
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- Akdeniz University Medical School, Department of Medical Microbiology, Antalya, Turkey
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- University of Health Sciences, Antalya Training & Research Hospital, Department of Medical Microbiology, Antalya, Turkey
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- University of Health Sciences, Antalya Training & Research Hospital, Department of Medical Microbiology, Antalya, Turkey
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Ahmed HY, Safwat N, Shehata R, Althubaiti EH, Kareem S, Atef A, Qari SH, Aljahani AH, Al-Meshal AS, Youssef M, Sami R. Synthesis of Natural Nano-Hydroxyapatite from Snail Shells and Its Biological Activity: Antimicrobial, Antibiofilm, and Biocompatibility. MEMBRANES 2022; 12:408. [PMID: 35448378 PMCID: PMC9025656 DOI: 10.3390/membranes12040408] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/19/2022] [Revised: 03/25/2022] [Accepted: 04/04/2022] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Hydroxyapatite nanoparticles (HAn) have been produced as biomaterial from biowaste, especially snail shells (Atactodea glabrata). It is critical to recycle the waste product in a biomedical application to overcome antibiotic resistance as well as biocompatibility with normal tissues. Moreover, EDX, TEM, and FT-IR analyses have been used to characterize snail shells and HAn. The particle size of HAn is about 15.22 nm. Furthermore, higher inhibitory activity was observed from HAn than the reference compounds against all tested organisms. The synthesized HAn has shown the lowest MIC values of about 7.8, 0.97, 3.9, 0.97, and 25 µg/mL for S. aureus, B. subtilis, K. pneumonia, C. albicans, and E. coli, respectively. In addition, the HAn displayed potent antibiofilm against S. aureus and B. subtilis. According to the MTT, snail shell and HAn had a minor influence on the viability of HFS-4 cells. Consequently, it could be concluded that some components of waste, such as snail shells, have economic value and can be recycled as a source of CaO to produce HAn, which is a promising candidate material for biomedical applications.
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- Hanaa Y Ahmed
- The Regional Center for Mycology and Biotechnology, Al-Azhar University, Cairo 11787, Egypt
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- The Regional Center for Mycology and Biotechnology, Al-Azhar University, Cairo 11787, Egypt
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- The Regional Center for Mycology and Biotechnology, Al-Azhar University, Cairo 11787, Egypt
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- Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Science, Taif University, P.O. Box 11099, Taif 21944, Saudi Arabia
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- The Regional Center for Mycology and Biotechnology, Al-Azhar University, Cairo 11787, Egypt
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- The Regional Center for Mycology and Biotechnology, Al-Azhar University, Cairo 11787, Egypt
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- Department of Biology, Al-Jumum University College, Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah 21955, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Physical Sport Science, College of Education, Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University, P.O. Box 84428, Riyadh 11671, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Biology, College of Science and Humanities in Al-Kharj, Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University, Al-Kharj 11942, Saudi Arabia
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- Food Science and Technology Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Al-Azhar University, Cairo 11787, Egypt
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- Department of Food Science and Nutrition, College of Sciences, Taif University, P.O. Box 11099, Taif 21944, Saudi Arabia
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Prinz B. How blood met plastics, plant and animal extracts: Material encounters between medicine and industry in the twentieth century. STUDIES IN HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE 2022; 92:45-55. [PMID: 35131685 DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsa.2022.01.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/28/2020] [Revised: 01/11/2022] [Accepted: 01/11/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Twentieth-century medicine saw the remarkable rise of complex machines and infrastructures to process blood for medical purposes, such as transfusion, dialysis, and cardiac surgery. Instead of attributing these developments to technological ingenuity, this article argues for the primacy of material encounters as a promising focal point of medical historiography. In fact, blood's special properties consistently clashed with most materials used in medical practice, provoking a series of material exchanges. Drawing on a combination of epistemological and network approaches, three exemplary cases are presented to examine blood's encounters with plastics, plant and animal extracts: William M. Bayliss's (1860-1926) injections of dissolved gum acacia to expand diminished blood volume; Charles H. Best's (1899-1978) production of the anticoagulant heparin from animal organs; and the preservation of fragile blood cells by silicone coatings inside of John H. Gibbon Jr.'s (1903-1973) heart-lung machine. The case studies demonstrate how the complementarity of blood and these materials produced hybridizations between medicine and a range of industrial branches, from colonial forestry and meatpacking to commercial chemistry. In this light, the paper concludes by discussing the dependencies of today's healthcare environments on globally distributed, capitalistically appropriated resources in the face of crises like the COVID-19 pandemic.
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- Benjamin Prinz
- Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Faculty of Media, Theory of Media Worlds, Bauhausstr. 11, 99423, Weimar, Germany.
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Packer M, Lambert DM. What’s Gender Got to Do With It? Dismantling the Human Hierarchies in Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Toxicology for Scientific and Social Progress. Am Nat 2022; 200:114-128. [DOI: 10.1086/720131] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Dickinson A. Neck of the woods: Microbes, memory, and resistance. ENDEAVOUR 2022; 46:100821. [PMID: 35811169 DOI: 10.1016/j.endeavour.2022.100821] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/13/2021] [Revised: 10/20/2021] [Accepted: 06/09/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Horizontal Gene Transfer (HGT) is a key mechanism allowing bacteria to enact genetic changes in response to shifting environmental conditions. The swift lateral movement of genes makes possible antibiotic resistance, which is an increasing medical and ultimately cultural problem. There is evidence that HGT also takes place between species. Bacterial DNA appears in the human mitochondrial genome of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) samples. Responding to a recent diagnosis of AML, this creative piece imagines a literary form of HGT. Adjacency is intrinsic to the conceptual and formal concerns of the text. Moving back and forth between essay and poem, between the personal and the planetary, between the real and the imagined, and between the right and left margins of the page, this piece unfolds beside itself, exploring the lateral movement of memory and family history through concerns with antibiotic resistance, illness, writing, and science. While there are no embedded citations or footnotes, a glossary of terms (Appendix 1) follows the main text, and a brief bibliographic essay (Appendix 2) at the end identifies cited sources that correspond to a list of references.
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- Adam Dickinson
- Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario L2S 3A1, Canada.
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Höll D, Bossert LN. Introducing the microbiome: Interdisciplinary perspectives. ENDEAVOUR 2022; 46:100817. [PMID: 35667903 PMCID: PMC9412664 DOI: 10.1016/j.endeavour.2022.100817] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/04/2022] [Accepted: 05/06/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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- Davina Höll
- Institute for Ethics and History of Medicine, Cluster of Excellence "Controlling Microbes to Fight Infections" (CMFI), University of Tübingen.
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- International Center for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities (IZEW), University of Tübingen
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Formosinho J, Bencard A, Whiteley L. Environmentality in biomedicine: microbiome research and the perspectival body. STUDIES IN HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE 2022; 91:148-158. [PMID: 34922182 DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsa.2021.11.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2021] [Revised: 10/18/2021] [Accepted: 11/07/2021] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Microbiome research shows that human health is foundationally intertwined with the ecology of microbial communities living on and in our bodies. This challenges the categorical separation of organisms from environments that has been central to biomedicine, and questions the boundaries between them. Biomedicine is left with an empirical problem: how to understand causal pathways between host health, microbiota and environment? We propose a conceptual tool - environmentality - to think through this problem. Environmentality is the state or quality of being an environment for something else in a particular context: a fully perspectival proposition. Its power lies partly in what Isabelle Stengers has called the efficacy of the word itself, contrasting the dominant sense of the word environment as something both external and fixed. Through three case studies, we argue that environmentality can help think about the causality of microbiota vis-a-vis host health in a processual, relational and situated manner, across scales and temporalities. We situate this intervention within historical trajectories of thought in biomedicine, focusing on the challenge microbiome research poses to an aperspectival body. We argue that addressing entanglements between microbial and human lives requires that the environment is brought into the clinic, thus shortening the conceptual gap between medicine and public health.
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- Joana Formosinho
- Medical Museion, Department of Public Health and Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research (CBMR), University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
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- Medical Museion, Department of Public Health and Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research (CBMR), University of Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Medical Museion, Department of Public Health and Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research (CBMR), University of Copenhagen, Denmark
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Gibbon S, Lamoreaux J. Toward Intergenerational Ethnography: Kinship, Cohorts, and Environments in and Beyond the Biosocial Sciences. Med Anthropol Q 2022; 35:423-440. [PMID: 35066927 DOI: 10.1111/maq.12682] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/06/2021] [Revised: 09/13/2021] [Accepted: 09/22/2021] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Situated alongside and drawing from emerging inquiry, debate, and reflection about making and unmaking kin at a moment of critical reflection on racial, social, and reproductive inequities and changing environments, this special edition considers how anthropology can ethnographically examine and engage with intergenerational dynamics as they influence different scales and spheres of life. It brings together medical anthropologists and science and technology scholars conducting research in Bangladesh, China, the United Kingdom, South Africa, and the United States as they reflect on the un/making of kin in settings of expert knowledge production and dissemination, including practices of seed collecting, epigenetic science, birth cohort studies, social policy generation, and clinical trials. Contributors to this special issue consider how intergenerational relations and modes of transmission take form in and through biosocial research-both as an object of study and a method of analysis. [intergenerational, environmental change, kinship, biosocial].
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- Sahra Gibbon
- Department of Anthropology, University College London
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Chen C, Wang Y, Zhang D, Wang J. Construction of bifunctionalized Co-V mixed metal oxide nanosheets with Co3+-Rich surfaces and oxygen defect derived from LDHs as nanozyme for antibacterial application. J IND ENG CHEM 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jiec.2021.09.034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Lappé M, Jeffries Hein R. You Are What Your Mother Endured: Intergenerational Epigenetics, Early Caregiving, and the Temporal Embedding of Adversity. Med Anthropol Q 2021; 35:458-475. [PMID: 35066926 PMCID: PMC9583719 DOI: 10.1111/maq.12683] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2020] [Revised: 08/04/2021] [Accepted: 08/09/2021] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Environmental epigenetics has become a site of growing attention related to the intergenerational effects of stress, trauma, and adversity. This article draws on a multi-sited ethnography of epigenetic knowledge production in the United States and Canada to document how scientists conceptualize, model, and measure these experiences and their effects on children's neurodevelopmental and behavioral health. We find that scientists' efforts to identify the molecular effects of stress, trauma, and adversity results in a temporal focus on the mother-child dyad during early life. This has the effect of biologizing early childhood adversity, positioning it as a consequence of caregiving, and producing epigenetic findings that often align with individually oriented interventions rather than social and structural change. Our analysis suggests that epigenetic models of stress, trauma, and adversity therefore situate histories of oppression, inequality, and subjugation in discrete and gendered family relations, resulting in the temporal embedding of adversity during early life.
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- Martine Lappé
- Social Sciences Department, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
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Tompson AC, Manderson L, Chandler CIR. Understanding antibiotic use: practices, structures and networks. JAC Antimicrob Resist 2021; 3:dlab150. [PMID: 34617017 PMCID: PMC8488471 DOI: 10.1093/jacamr/dlab150] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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In this article, we consider how social sciences can help us to understand the rising use of antibiotics globally. Drawing on ethnography as a way to research how we are in the world, we explore scholarship that situates antibiotic use in relation to interactions of pathogens, humans, animals and the environment in the context of globalization, changes in agriculture and urbanization. We group this research into three areas: practices, structures and networks. Much of the public health and related social research concerning antimicrobial resistance has focused on antibiotic use as a practice, with research characterizing how antibiotics are used by patients, farmers, fishermen, drug sellers, clinicians and others. Researchers have also positioned antibiotic use as emergent of political-economic structures, shedding light on how working and living conditions, quality of care, hygiene and sanitation foster reliance on antibiotics. A growing body of research sees antibiotics as embedded in networks that, in addition to social and institutional networks, comprise physical, technical and historical connections such as guidelines, supply chains and reporting systems. Taken together, this research emphasizes the multiple ways that antibiotics have become built into daily life. Wider issues, which may be invisible without explication through ethnographic approaches, need to be considered when addressing antibiotic use. Adopting the complementary vantage points of practices, networks and structures can support the diversification of our responses to AMR.
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- A C Tompson
- Department of Global Health & Development, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, 15–17 Tavistock Place, London WC1H 9SH, UK
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- School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, 27 St Andrews Road, Parktown 2193, Johannesburg, South Africa
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- Department of Global Health & Development, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, 15–17 Tavistock Place, London WC1H 9SH, UK
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Houf J. Faecal microbiota transplants: towards a healthy disgust scepticism. MEDICAL HUMANITIES 2021; 47:407-416. [PMID: 34509994 DOI: 10.1136/medhum-2020-012135] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 08/05/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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This paper engages with the obstacle of disgust surrounding the use of faecal microbiota transplants (FMT). In discourse about the human microbiome and microbiota-based therapies (like FMT), disgust has become an unavoidable emotion for physicians, patients and caregivers interested in these therapies. Additionally, microbiota therapies and microbiomes are challenging our conception of an individual biological self. As these two discourses converge with FMT, it becomes necessary to understand how they are working together. To do this, this paper explores the way disgust functions in the formation of subjects. Scholarship about disgust can be categorised into two approaches: disgust as a deep wisdom or disgust scepticism. The former approach focuses on the physiological, embodied aspects of our disgust reactions as evidence of 'truth' in disgusting encounters, and the latter recognises the way disgust is culturally contingent and adapted for use in moral and social determinations of good and bad. However, both positions accept the use of disgust as a defence against 'toxins and diseases'. Yet, as this paper argues, we should take the sceptical approach further. The disgust sceptical approach, particularly as developed by Sarah Ahmed, does more than just challenge disgust's role in moral deliberations. It also demands sceptical reflection on disgust as a universal defence against 'toxins and diseases'. Much as disgust can be co-opted to support oppression, it too can be co-opted to reconstitute a false vision of human subjectivity-the coherent, contained and exceptional human subject situated above the natural world. The human microbiome, faecal therapeutics and being disgusted give us an opportunity to recognise ourselves as more-than-human subjects.
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- Jessica Houf
- Communication and Media Studies, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA 71272, USA
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Biomedicine tends to treat "mental" illnesses as if they could be isolated from multiple social and somatic problems. Yet mental suffering is inseparable from complex somatosocial relations. Clinical fieldwork in a deprived area of the UK shows that nearly all the people treated for "depression" are chronically multimorbid, both in their bodies and in their social relations. Mental suffering is co-produced by poverty, trauma, and excessive medication use. Patients' guts are as imbalanced as their moods. Single vertical treatments make them worse rather than better. In the UK, patients in poorer neighbourhoods do not "lack access" to healthcare. If anything, they suffer from taking too many medications with too little integration. I conceptualize the bad effects of excessive interventions in patients with multiple chronic problems as polyiatrogenesis.
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- Stefan Ecks
- Social Anthropology, University of Edinburgh, Chrystal Macmillan Building, George Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9LD, UK.
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Barone ME, Murphy E, Parkes R, Fleming GTA, Campanile F, Thomas OP, Touzet N. Antibacterial Activity and Amphidinol Profiling of the Marine Dinoflagellate Amphidinium carterae (Subclade III). Int J Mol Sci 2021; 22:ijms222212196. [PMID: 34830076 PMCID: PMC8618426 DOI: 10.3390/ijms222212196] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/13/2021] [Revised: 11/01/2021] [Accepted: 11/05/2021] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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Microalgae have received growing interest for their capacity to produce bioactive metabolites. This study aimed at characterising the antimicrobial potential of the marine dinoflagellate Amphidinium carterae strain LACW11, isolated from the west of Ireland. Amphidinolides have been identified as cytotoxic polyoxygenated polyketides produced by several Amphidinium species. Phylogenetic inference assigned our strain to Amphidinium carterae subclade III, along with isolates interspersed in different geographic regions. A two-stage extraction and fractionation process of the biomass was carried out. Extracts obtained after stage-1 were tested for bioactivity against bacterial ATCC strains of Staphylococcus aureus, Enterococcus faecalis, Escherichia coli and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. The stage-2 solid phase extraction provided 16 fractions, which were tested against S. aureus and E. faecalis. Fractions I, J and K yielded minimum inhibitory concentrations between 16 μg/mL and 256 μg/mL for both Gram-positive. A targeted metabolomic approach using UHPLC-HRMS/MS analysis applied on fractions G to J evidenced the presence of amphidinol type compounds AM-A, AM-B, AM-22 and a new derivative dehydroAM-A, with characteristic masses of m/z 1361, 1463, 1667 and 1343, respectively. Combining the results of the biological assays with the targeted metabolomic approach, we could conclude that AM-A and the new derivative dehydroAM-A are responsible for the detected antimicrobial bioactivity.
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- Maria Elena Barone
- Centre for Environmental Research, Sustainability and Innovation, Department of Environmental Science, School of Science, Institute of Technology Sligo, Ash Ln, Ballytivnan, F91 YW50 Sligo, Ireland; (M.E.B.); (R.P.)
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- Marine Biodiversity, School of Chemistry, Ryan Institute, National University of Ireland Galway (NUI Galway), University Road, H91 TK33 Galway, Ireland;
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- Centre for Environmental Research, Sustainability and Innovation, Department of Environmental Science, School of Science, Institute of Technology Sligo, Ash Ln, Ballytivnan, F91 YW50 Sligo, Ireland; (M.E.B.); (R.P.)
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- Discipline of Microbiology, School of Natural Science, National University of Ireland Galway (NUI Galway), University Road, H91 TK33 Galway, Ireland;
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- Medical Molecular Microbiology and Antibiotic Resistance Laboratory (MMARLab), Department of Biomedical and Biotechnological Sciences, University of Catania, Via Santa Sofia n. 97, 95123 Catania, Italy;
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- Marine Biodiversity, School of Chemistry, Ryan Institute, National University of Ireland Galway (NUI Galway), University Road, H91 TK33 Galway, Ireland;
- Correspondence: (O.P.T.); (N.T.)
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- Centre for Environmental Research, Sustainability and Innovation, Department of Environmental Science, School of Science, Institute of Technology Sligo, Ash Ln, Ballytivnan, F91 YW50 Sligo, Ireland; (M.E.B.); (R.P.)
- Correspondence: (O.P.T.); (N.T.)
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Brealey JC, Leitão HG, Hofstede T, Kalthoff DC, Guschanski K. The oral microbiota of wild bears in Sweden reflects the history of antibiotic use by humans. Curr Biol 2021; 31:4650-4658.e6. [PMID: 34437844 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2021.08.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/17/2021] [Revised: 07/23/2021] [Accepted: 08/02/2021] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Following the advent of industrial-scale antibiotic production in the 1940s,1 antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has been on the rise and now poses a major global health threat in terms of mortality, morbidity, and economic burden.2,3 Because AMR can be exchanged between humans, livestock, and wildlife, wild animals can be used as indicators of human-associated AMR contamination of the environment.4 However, AMR is a normal function of natural environments and is present in host-associated microbiomes, which makes it challenging to distinguish between anthropogenic and natural sources.4,5 One way to overcome this difficulty is to use historical samples that span the period from before the mass production of antibiotics to today. We used shotgun metagenomic sequencing of dental calculus, the calcified form of the oral microbial biofilm, to determine the abundance and repertoire of AMR genes in the oral microbiome of Swedish brown bears collected over the last 180 years. Our temporal metagenomics approach allowed us to establish a baseline of natural AMR in the pre-antibiotics era and to quantify a significant increase in total AMR load and diversity of AMR genes that is consistent with patterns of national human antibiotic use. We also demonstrated a significant decrease in total AMR load in bears in the last two decades, which coincides with Swedish strategies to mitigate AMR. Our study suggests that public health policies can be effective in limiting human-associated AMR contamination of the environment and wildlife.
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- Jaelle C Brealey
- Department of Ecology and Genetics/Animal Ecology, Uppsala University, Norbyvägen 18D, Uppsala 75236, Sweden.
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- Department of Ecology and Genetics/Animal Ecology, Uppsala University, Norbyvägen 18D, Uppsala 75236, Sweden
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- Department of Ecology and Genetics/Animal Ecology, Uppsala University, Norbyvägen 18D, Uppsala 75236, Sweden
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- Department of Zoology, Swedish Museum of Natural History, PO Box 50007, Stockholm 10405, Sweden
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- Department of Ecology and Genetics/Animal Ecology, Uppsala University, Norbyvägen 18D, Uppsala 75236, Sweden; Institute of Evolutionary Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Ashworth Laboratories, The Kings Buildings, Charlotte Auerbach Road, Edinburgh EH9 3FL, UK.
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Haraoui LP. Networked collective microbiomes and the rise of subcellular 'units of life'. Trends Microbiol 2021; 30:112-119. [PMID: 34696928 DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2021.09.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2021] [Revised: 09/21/2021] [Accepted: 09/27/2021] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Microbiomes are generally conceived of as one element of a pair - their partner being the habitat they occupy. I call this common scientific practice 'pair-thinking'. Research into antimicrobial resistance and its underlying anthropogenic drivers highlights the growing footprint occupied by mobile genetic elements (MGEs). Furthermore, these MGEs are known to circulate widely between microbiomes. Using a pluralistic framework anchored within a processual microbial ontology, these observations point to a reframing of microbiomes as networked and collective, thus challenging pair-thinking. Such a shift has implications for the future of microbiome research, from conceptual and methodological perspectives, and exposes the impacts of anthropogenic forces on the evolution of microbiomes and the functions they carry out.
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- Louis-Patrick Haraoui
- Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada.
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Antibiotic Resistance: From Pig to Meat. Antibiotics (Basel) 2021; 10:antibiotics10101209. [PMID: 34680790 PMCID: PMC8532907 DOI: 10.3390/antibiotics10101209] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/09/2021] [Revised: 09/29/2021] [Accepted: 10/01/2021] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Pork meat is in high demand worldwide and this is expected to increase. Pork is often raised in intensive conditions, which is conducive to the spread of infectious diseases. Vaccines, antibiotics, and other biosafety measures help mitigate the impact of infectious diseases. However, bacterial strains resistant to antibiotics are more and more frequently found in pig farms, animals, and the environment. It is now recognized that a holistic perspective is needed to sustainably fight antibiotic resistance, and that an integrated One Health approach is essential. With this in mind, this review tackles antibiotic resistance throughout the pork raising process, including their microbiome; many factors of their environment (agricultural workers, farms, rivers, etc.); and an overview of the impact of antibiotic resistance on pork meat, which is the end product available to consumers. Antibiotic resistance, while a natural process, is a public health concern. If we react, and act, collectively, it is expected to be, at least partially, reversible with judicious antibiotic usage and the development of innovative strategies and tools to foster animal health.
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Tracy M. Missing Microbes and Other Gendered Microbiopolitics in Bovine Fermentation. CURRENT ANTHROPOLOGY 2021. [DOI: 10.1086/714345] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Hendy J, Rest M, Aldenderfer M, Warinner C. Cultures of Fermentation: Living with Microbes. CURRENT ANTHROPOLOGY 2021. [DOI: 10.1086/715476] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Ishaq SL, Parada FJ, Wolf PG, Bonilla CY, Carney MA, Benezra A, Wissel E, Friedman M, DeAngelis KM, Robinson JM, Fahimipour AK, Manus MB, Grieneisen L, Dietz LG, Pathak A, Chauhan A, Kuthyar S, Stewart JD, Dasari MR, Nonnamaker E, Choudoir M, Horve PF, Zimmerman NB, Kozik AJ, Darling KW, Romero-Olivares AL, Hariharan J, Farmer N, Maki KA, Collier JL, O’Doherty KC, Letourneau J, Kline J, Moses PL, Morar N. Introducing the Microbes and Social Equity Working Group: Considering the Microbial Components of Social, Environmental, and Health Justice. mSystems 2021; 6:e0047121. [PMID: 34313460 PMCID: PMC8407420 DOI: 10.1128/msystems.00471-21] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Humans are inextricably linked to each other and our natural world, and microorganisms lie at the nexus of those interactions. Microorganisms form genetically flexible, taxonomically diverse, and biochemically rich communities, i.e., microbiomes that are integral to the health and development of macroorganisms, societies, and ecosystems. Yet engagement with beneficial microbiomes is dictated by access to public resources, such as nutritious food, clean water and air, safe shelter, social interactions, and effective medicine. In this way, microbiomes have sociopolitical contexts that must be considered. The Microbes and Social Equity (MSE) Working Group connects microbiology with social equity research, education, policy, and practice to understand the interplay of microorganisms, individuals, societies, and ecosystems. Here, we outline opportunities for integrating microbiology and social equity work through broadening education and training; diversifying research topics, methods, and perspectives; and advocating for evidence-based public policy that supports sustainable, equitable, and microbial wealth for all.
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- Suzanne L. Ishaq
- University of Maine, School of Food and Agriculture, Orono, Maine, USA
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- Centro de Estudios en Neurociencia Humana y Neuropsicología, Facultad de Psicología, Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago, Chile
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- Institute for Health Research and Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Gonzaga University, Department of Biology, Spokane, Washington, USA
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- University of Arizona, School of Anthropology, Tucson, Arizona, USA
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- Stevens Institute of Technology, Science and Technology Studies, Hoboken, New Jersey, USA
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- American International College of Arts and Sciences of Antigua, Antigua, Antigua and Barbuda, West Indies
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- Department of Microbiology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
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- University of Sheffield, Department of Landscape Architecture, Sheffield, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Marine Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, USA
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Santa Cruz, California, USA
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- Department of Anthropology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Cell, and Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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- University of Oregon, Biology and the Built Environment Center, Eugene, Oregon, USA
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- School of the Environment, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, Tallahassee, Florida, USA
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- School of the Environment, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, Tallahassee, Florida, USA
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- Division of Biological Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA
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- Department of Ecological Science, Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, USA
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- Department of Microbiology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
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- University of Oregon, Biology and the Built Environment Center, Eugene, Oregon, USA
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- University of San Francisco, Department of Biology, San Francisco, California, USA
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- Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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- Social Science Program, University of Maine at Augusta, Augusta, Maine, USA
- University of Maine, Graduate School of Biomedical Science & Engineering, Bangor, Maine, USA
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- Field of Soil and Crop Sciences, School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA
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- National Institutes of Health, Clinical Center, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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- National Institutes of Health, Clinical Center, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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- School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, USA
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- Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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- Robert Larner College of Medicine, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, USA
- Finch Therapeutics, Somerville, Massachusetts, USA
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- Environmental Studies Program, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, USA
- Department of Philosophy, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, USA
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The modern hospital executive, micro improvements, and the rise of antimicrobial resistance. Soc Sci Med 2021; 285:114298. [PMID: 34390979 DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114298] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/02/2020] [Revised: 07/20/2021] [Accepted: 08/02/2021] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is now recognised as a social, cultural, economic and political phenomenon, positioning the social sciences as central in responding to this global health threat. Yet efforts to address AMR within hospital settings, for example through antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) programs, continue to focus primarily on the prescribing practices of individual clinicians, often with little effect. There has been less attention to the role of healthcare administration, and managerialism therein, in explaining the limited progress to date in reining in antimicrobial misuse. To explore this, drawing on interviews with senior executives and managers from two Australian hospitals, we examine how these stakeholders navigate between management practice and AMR solutions, revealing that antimicrobial optimisation is frequently obscured by accountability structures attuned to other agendas. This has led, we argue, to the institutionalisation of micro-improvements that frequently 'tick the box' of having an AMS program, yet do little to effectively counteract rising AMR. Our analysis illustrates how sociological attention to the structural and ideological settings within which prescribing behaviour is carried out will be crucial to any attempts to successfully rein in AMR.
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Froissart R, Brives C. Evolutionary biology and development model of medicines: A necessary 'pas de deux' for future successful bacteriophage therapy. J Evol Biol 2021; 34:1855-1866. [PMID: 34288190 DOI: 10.1111/jeb.13904] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/19/2020] [Revised: 03/29/2021] [Accepted: 06/15/2021] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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The increase in frequency of multidrug-resistant bacteria worldwide is largely the result of the massive use of antibiotics in the second half of the 20th century. These relatively recent changes in human societies revealed the great evolutionary capacities of bacteria towards drug resistance. In this article, we hypothesize that the success of future antibacterial strategies lies in taking into account both these evolutionary processes and the way human activities influence them. Faced with the increasing prevalence of multidrug-resistant bacteria and the scarcity of new antibacterial chemical molecules, the use of bacteriophages is considered as a complementary and/or alternative therapy. After presenting the evolutionary capacities of bacteriophages and bacteria, we show how the development model currently envisaged (based on the classification of bacteriophages as medicinal products similar to antibacterial chemical molecules) ignores the evolutionary processes inherent in bacteriophage therapy. This categorization imposes to bacteriophage therapy a specific conception of what a treatment and a therapeutic scheme should be as well as its mode of production and prescription. We argue that a new development model is needed that would allow the use of therapeutic bacteriophages fully adapted (after in vitro 'bacteriophage training') to the aetiologic bacteria and/or aimed at rendering bacteria either avirulent or antibiotic-susceptible ('bacteriophage steering'). To not repeat the mistakes made with antibiotics, we must now think about and learn from the ways in which the materialities of microbes (e.g. evolutionary capacities of both bacteriophages and bacteria) are intertwined with those of societies.
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- Rémy Froissart
- MIVEGEC, Univ. Montpellier, CNRS, IRD, Montpellier, France
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Skjølstrup NK, Nielsen LR, Jensen CS, Lastein DB. Veterinary Herd Health Consultancy and Antimicrobial Use in Dairy Herds. Front Vet Sci 2021; 7:547975. [PMID: 33604361 PMCID: PMC7884328 DOI: 10.3389/fvets.2020.547975] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2020] [Accepted: 12/14/2020] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
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The globally increasing level of antimicrobial resistance affects both human and animal health, why it is necessary to identify ways to change our current use of antimicrobials. The veterinary herd health collaboration between veterinarians and dairy farmers provides a useful setting for changing antimicrobial use in livestock. However, farmers and veterinarians work in a complex agricultural setting influenced by socio-economic factors, which complicates their choices regarding antimicrobial usage. It is therefore necessary to be aware of the range of potential influencing factors and to integrate this knowledge in the relevant local settings. This manuscript presents a literature review of relevant factors relating to antimicrobial use within the veterinary herd health consultancy setting, including knowledge gaps of relevance for changing the use of antimicrobials. An enriched version of the framework of the Theory of Planned Behaviour was used to organise the literature review. We identified diverging attitudes on correct treatment practices and perceptions of antimicrobial resistance among veterinarians and farmers, influenced by individual risk perception as well as social norms. Furthermore, disagreements in terms of goal setting and in the frequency of herd visits in relation to herd health consultancy can negatively influence the collaboration and the intention to change antimicrobial use. Farmers and veterinarians emphasise the importance of legislation and the role of the dairy industry in changing antimicrobial use, but the relevance of specific factors depends on the country-specific context. Overall, farmers and veterinarians must communicate better to understand each other's perspectives and establish common goals within the collaboration if they are to work efficiently to reduce antimicrobial use. Farmers and veterinarians both requested changes in individual behaviour; however, they also called for national and structural solutions in terms of balanced legislation and the availability of better diagnostics to facilitate a change in antimicrobial use practices. These various paths to achieving the desired changes in antimicrobial use illustrate the need to bridge methodological research approaches of veterinary science and social sciences for a better understanding of our potential to change antimicrobial use within the dairy farm animal sector.
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- Nanna K. Skjølstrup
- Section for Production, Nutrition and Health, Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Frederiksberg, Denmark
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- Section for Animal Welfare and Disease Control, Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Frederiksberg, Denmark
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- Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Section for Production, Nutrition and Health, Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Frederiksberg, Denmark
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