Harnessing Non-Antibiotic Strategies to Counter Multidrug-Resistant Clinical Pathogens with Special Reference to Antimicrobial Peptides and Their Coatings by Shyam Kumar Mishra, Tanzina Akter, Umme Laila Urmi, George Enninful, Manjulatha Sara, Jiawei Shen, Dittu Suresh, Liangjun Zheng, Elias Shiferaw Mekonen, Binod Rayamajhee, Francesco M. Labricciosa, Massimo Sartelli, Mark Willcox

“…Antimicrobial resistance is a critical global challenge in the 21st century, validating Sir Alexander Fleming’s warning about the misuse of antibiotics leading to resistant microbes. With a dwindling arsenal of effective antibiotics, it is imperative to concentrate on alternative antimicrobial strategies. …”
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A Review of Marine Bacterial Intracellular and Extracellular Bioactive Compounds as Novel Antibacterial and Anti-Inflammation Agents by Harningsih Karim, Arief Azis, Ananda Ramadani, Anita Anita, Ahyar Ahmad, Hasnah Natsir, Paulina Taba, Suriati Eka Putri, Sarlan Sarlan, Siti Halimah Larekeng, Rizal Irfandi

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Soil microbiome interventions for carbon sequestration and climate mitigation by Gwyn A. Beattie, Anna Edlund, Nwadiuto Esiobu, Jack Gilbert, Mette Haubjerg Nicolaisen, Janet K. Jansson, Paul Jensen, Marco Keiluweit, Jay T. Lennon, Jennifer Martiny, Vanessa R. Minnis, Dianne Newman, Raquel Peixoto, Christopher Schadt, Jan Roelof van der Meer

“…Among the many knowledge gaps in this field, crucial gaps include the processes influencing the transformation of plant-derived soil carbon inputs into SOM and the identity of the microbes and microbial activities impacting this transformation. …”
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Effects of Sewage Sludge Compost on Carbon, Nitrogen, Phosphorus, and Sulfur Ratios and Soil Enzyme Activities in a Long-Term Experiment by Csilla Almási, Viktória Orosz, Timea Tóth, Mostafa M. Mansour, Ibolya Demeter, István Henzsel, Zsolt Bogdányi, Tamás András Szegi, Marianna Makádi

“…Based on the alkaline and acidic phosphatase activities, the role of microbes became more important with increasing compost doses in phosphorus mobilization. …”
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Vaccines in the fight against antimicrobial resistance – perspectives from South Africa by A Brink, A Kgasi, A Musyoki, B Kagina, C Feldman, D Reddy, E du Toit, E Kalanxhi, J Meyer, I Impalli, M Schönfeldt, M Sibanda, N Schellack, P Skosana, S Essack, S Dlamini, Y Ramsamy

“… Antimicrobial resistance (AMR), in which microbes adapt to and resist current therapies, is a well-recognised global problem that threatens to reverse gains made by modern medicine in the last decades. …”
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Microneedle technology for enhanced topical treatment of skin infections by Tingting Peng, Yangyan Chen, Xuanyu Luan, Wanshan Hu, Wentao Wu, Bing Guo, Chao Lu, Chuanbin Wu, Xin Pan

“…Skin infections caused by microbes such as bacteria, fungi, and viruses often lead to aberrant skin functions and appearance, eventually evolving into a significant risk to human health. …”
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Role of Gut and Urinary Microbiome in Children with Urinary Tract Infections: A Systematic Review by Anjali Srivastava, Omprakash Shete, Annu Gulia, Sumit Aggarwal, Tarini Shankar Ghosh, Vineet Ahuja, Sachit Anand

“…The consistent loss of microbiome alpha-diversity with an enrichment of specific putative pathobiont microbes was observed among the included studies. <i>Escherichia coli</i> consistently emerged as the predominant uropathogen in pediatric UTIs. …”
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Re-connecting ecosystems: Integrating coral reefs into monitoring of island restoration by Cassandra E. Benkwitt, Kalia S.I. Bistolas, Jayna L. DeVore, Simon Ducatez, Jazmín Prado Gómez, Rosalie Wright, Mayalen Zubia, Pierrick Harnay, Teva Beguet, Lisa M. Wedding, Deron E. Burkepile, Frank Murphy, Nicholas A.J. Graham, Rebecca Vega Thurber, Hannah E. Epstein

“…Seabirds, in turn, provided nutrient subsidies that were incorporated by marine algae and coral-reef fishes, with the most pronounced effects closer to shore, at leeward sites, and at low trophic levels. Microbes and macroalgae exhibited assemblage-level responses to seabird-derived nutrients entering the marine environment, but there were few differences in coral reef benthic and fish assemblages. …”
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Odor-active aroma compounds in traditional fermented dairy products: The case of mabisi in supporting food and nutrition security in Zambia by Thelma W. Sikombe, Anita R. Linnemann, Himoonga B. Moonga, Stefanie Quilitz, Sijmen E. Schoustra, Eddy J. Smid, Anna Alekseeva

“…The aroma of fermented dairy products comprises the volatile organic compounds (VOCs) produced by the activity of fermenting microbes and the compounds originally present in unfermented raw milk. …”
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The short-chain fatty acid receptors Gpr41/43 regulate bone mass by promoting adipogenic differentiation of mesenchymal stem cells by Friederike Behler-Janbeck, Anke Baranowsky, Timur A. Yorgan, Michelle Y. Jaeckstein, Anna Worthmann, Marceline M. Fuh, Karthikeyan Gunasekaran, Gisa Tiegs, Michael Amling, Thorsten Schinke, Joerg Heeren

“…This process has been linked to the fermentation of non-digestible food ingredients such as inulin by gut microbes, which results in the production of the short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs) acetate, propionate and butyrate. …”
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Acinetobacter baumannii represses type VI secretion system through a manganese-dependent small RNA-mediated regulation by Somok Bhowmik, Avik Pathak, Shivam Pandey, Kuldip Devnath, Abhiroop Sett, Nishant Jyoti, Timsy Bhando, Jawed Akhter, Saurabh Chugh, Ramandeep Singh, Tarun Kumar Sharma, Ranjana Pathania

“…Acinetobacter baumannii ATCC 17978 utilizes T6SS at the expense of losing pAB3 plasmid to induce contact-dependent killing of competitor microbes, resulting in the loss of antibiotic resistance carried by pAB3. …”
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Prevalence of Salmonella and Shigella species and their multidrug resistance patterns among pediatric populations in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Mihret Tilahun, Melaku Ashagrie Belete, Alemu Gedefie, Habtu Debash, Ermiyas Alemayehu, Daniel Gebretsadik Weldehana, Hussein Ebrahim, Ousman Mohammed, Bruktawit Eshetu, Saba Gebremichael Tekele, Zewudu Mulatie, Agumas Shibabaw

“…They are pathogenic microbes that cause significant diarrheal morbidity and mortality in under five children in resource limited countries. …”
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Anti-Methanogenic Potential of Seaweeds and Impact on Feed Fermentation and Rumen Microbiome In Vitro by Pradeep Kumar Malik, Atul Purshottam Kolte, Shraddha Trivedi, Govindan Tamilmani, Archit Mohapatra, Shalini Vaswani, Johnson Belevendran, Artabandhu Sahoo, Achamveetil Gopalakrishnan, Raghavendra Bhatta

“…The findings of this study revealed a significant decrease in the numbers of total protozoa and <i>Entodinomorphs</i>, coupled with increasing abundances of sulfate-reducing microbes and minor methanogens. Metagenome data revealed that irrespective of the seaweed and treatment, the predominant microbial phyla included Bacteroidota, Bacillota, Pseudomonadota, Actinomycetota, Fibrobacterota, and Euryarchaeota. …”
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Preparation of Nutmeg Gel and Evaluation of its Efficacy as Local Drug Delivery in Stage II Grade A Periodontitis Patients: A Prospective Interventional Study by Vazeeha Afrin Syed, AS Pavithra, Arvina Rajasekar, Rajeshkumar Shanmugam

“…Introduction: Periodontitis is defined as a chronic inflammatory disease caused by specific microbes, which triggers the production of inflammatory mediators. …”
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Supplementation with yak (Bos grunniens) bone collagen hydrolysate altered the structure of gut microbiota and elevated short-chain fatty acid production in mice by Zitao Guo, Dalong Yi, Bo Hu, Lingyu Zhu, Ji Zhang, Yuliang Yang, Chunyu Liu, Yi Shi, Zhenghua Gu, Yu Xin, Huaigao Liu, Liang Zhang

“…The predicted functions of gut microbes in the MD group were significantly increased at “lipid metabolism” and “glycan biosynthesis and metabolism”. …”
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Global metabolome changes induced by environmentally relevant conditions in a marine-sourced Penicillium restrictum by Le, Van-Tuyen, Bertrand, Samuel, Brandolini-Bunlon, Marion, Gentil, Emmanuel, Robiou du Pont, Thibaut, Rabesaotra, Vony, Wielgosz-Collin, Gaëtane, Mossion, Aurélie, Grovel, Olivier

“…This study finally highlights the need for using environment-mimicking culture conditions to reveal the metabolic potentialities of marine microbes.…”
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Deciphering the therapeutic effects of Xiyanping injection: insights into pulmonary and gut microbiome modulation, SerpinB2/PAI-2 targeting, and alleviation of influenza a virus-in... by Tengwen Liu, Shuping Li, Xuerui Wang, Mingjiang Liu, Yuchen Wang, Jie Ying, Shuwen Zhang, Yan Lin, Ning Wang, Yungjing Bai, Lan Xie, Tengfei Chen, Quansheng Feng, Xiaolong Xu

“…The linear discriminant analysis of the gut microbes revealed a higher proportion of potentially beneficial bacteria, including Akkermansia, Parabacteroides goldsteinii, Defluviitaleaceae, Oscillospirales, and Eubacterium_coprostanoligenes_group characterized the XYP group. …”
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Analysis of the efficacy of MALDI-TOF MS technology in identifying microorganisms in cancer patients and oncology hospital environment by Grażyna Czeszewska-Rosiak, Iwona Adamczyk, Agnieszka Ludwiczak, Piotr Fijałkowski, Paweł Fijałkowski, Magdalena Twarużek, Michał Złoch, Dorota Gabryś, Wioletta Miśta, Andrzej Tretyn, Paweł Piotr Pomastowski

“…Rapid diagnostics of microbes in hospitals are crucial for promptly identifying infections, enabling timely and appropriate treatment. …”
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Systematic identification of secondary bile acid production genes in global microbiome by Yuwei Yang, Wenxing Gao, Ruixin Zhu, Liwen Tao, Wanning Chen, Xinyue Zhu, Mengping Shen, Tingjun Xu, Tingting Zhao, Xiaobai Zhang, Lixin Zhu, Na Jiao

“…Although certain organisms involved in bile acid metabolism have been identified, a global, comprehensive elucidation of the microbes, metabolic enzymes, and bile acid remains incomplete. …”
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Multiple action sites of ultrasound on Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus by Xinyu Liao, Jiao Li, Yuanjie Suo, Shiguo Chen, Xingqian Ye, Donghong Liu, Tian Ding

“…We speculated that the inactivated effects of ultrasound on microbes might more than simply completed disruption of cell exteriors. …”
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