AS received support from the Singapore—MIT Alliance (SMA) Graduate Fellowship. Therefore, this mediator has been speculated to be a universal defense mechanism against antibiotics in bacteria. Combatting antimicrobial resistance globally. Human pharmacology of hydrogen sulfide, putative gaseous mediator. ATP levels were markedly reduced following treatment with NaHS (Figure 3D). Mol. International Review of Neurobiology 110, 195–239. Flow rate was set at 0.3 mL/min, and the auto-sampler was cooled at 4°C. Dwyer, D. J., Belenky, P. A., Yang, J. H., Cody MacDonald, I., Martell, J. D., Takahashi, N., et al. Proton transverse relaxation rates T2 were measured by standard Carr-Purcell-Meiboom-Gill (CPMG) pulse program. Microwave-Assisted Synthesis of Some Potential Bioactive Imidazolium-Based Room-Temperature Ionic Liquids. Agents Chemother. Int. 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The susceptibility percentage of Acinetobacter Baumannii against antibiotics: colistin 90%, imipenem 64%, meropenem 43%, ampicillin-sulbactam 28%, amikacin 27%, gentamicin 24%, cefepime 9%, ceftazidime 7%, ciprofloxacin 7%. A common mechanism of cellular death induced by bactericidal antibiotics. Antibiotic resistance mechanisms in A. baumannii include drug-modifying enzymes, efflux pump and reduced permeability (Asif et al., 2018). Detection of exhaled hydrogen sulphide gas in healthy human volunteers during intravenous administration of sodium sulphide. Microbiol. How antibiotics kill bacteria: from targets to networks. 305, 114–123. Toxicol. Environ. All experiments were performed twice in independent biological replicates. Gene Set Enrichment Analysis With topGO. The ability to survive in adverse environmental conditions as well as high level of natural and acquired antimicrobial resistance make A. baumannii one of the most important nosocomial pathogens. All 1H magnetic resonance relaxometry (MRR) measurements were performed in bench top MRR spectrometer which consists of a portable permanent magnet (Metrolab Instruments, Plan-les-Ouates, Switzerland) with B0 = 0.5T and a bench-top type NMR console (Kea Magritek, Wellington, New Zealand) at the resonance frequency of 21.65 MHz inside the magnet. HHS Samples were then centrifuged at 3,000 g for 5 min to pellet any residual debris and 80 μL of supernatant were transfer to autosampler vials and kept in 4°C in the dark before HPLC-MC analysis. 32, 109–134. The antibiotic resistance pattern was determined by disk diffusion. • Acinetobacter baumannii is an important human pathogen that has attracted the attention of many researchers Antibiotic resistance in this bacterium causes many problems in treating patients. SN, KO, JJL, JC, SS, LT, LC, HL, PH, AS, and JL conducted the experiments. The aim of the study was to determine the rate of infection and susceptibility spectrum of the species Acinetobacter baumannii isolated from patients treated at Maria Skłodowska-Curie Memorial Hospital in Zgierz with particular emphasis on surgical wards. Br. Pharmacol. Isolates were identified to species using the VITEK 2 GN card (bioMérieux) and Vitek 2 automated system (bioMérieux). Antioxid. Rev. Find NCBI SARS-CoV-2 literature, sequence, and clinical content: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sars-cov-2/. (2015) revealed that H2S promoted H2O2 killing by inactivating the heme-containing enzyme CAT in Shewanella oneidensis and Fu et al. Microbiol. 177, 769–777. 2008 Dec;3(6):649-60. doi: 10.2217/17460913.3.6.649. Dis. The data was subsequently analyzed using the MSStatsTMT R package (Huang et al., 2019). This study aimed to investigate antibiotic resistance patterns and resistance-related, genes in clinical isolates of Acinetobacter baumannii. Solutions were prepared fresh in autoclaved and degassed double distilled water to 1M concentration. Out of 124 isolates, the highest rate of resistance was observed for rifampin (96.8%). Figure 1. Nosocomial infections caused by strains Acinetobacter baumannii strands are a growing clinical problem. We also thank Dr. Radoslaw Sabota and Dr. Wint Phoo at A∗STAR Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology for assistance in mass spectrometry experiments.