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- Infections with antibiotic resistant bacteria, for example an urinary tract infections, are difficult to treat. Because of this, antibiotic resistance is an important public health threat. In Europe, the ESBL-producing gut bacteria (ESBL-G), are the most important cause of such infections, with around 400.000 cases per year. 5% of the Dutch inhabitants carries ESBL-G, while outside the Netherlands…
- Infections with antibiotic-resistant bacteria are a major threat to public health. Due to globalisation and poor use of antibiotics, resistance is spreading rapidly. Moreover, few new antibiotics have come onto the market in the last 20 years.AimIn this international project, researchers have been using the latest high-throughput screens to look for new combinations of drugs that can effectively…
- Bacteria can become resistant against beta-lactam antibiotics (Penicillin) by replacing their 3-4 peptide crosslinks by 3-3 crosslinks in the peptidoglycan layer in their cell wall that gives the bacterium its shape and protects it against mechanical stress. Peptidolglycan consists of a network of sugars strands that are interconnected by peptide crossbridges. Hardly anything was known about the…
- Respiratory tract infections are common and are increasingly caused by bacteria that are no longer sensitive to commonly used antibiotics.ObjectiveThis project aimed to expand the therapeutic arsenal against respiratory tract infections by testing agents that stimulate the immune system.ResultsThe AMC had 2 specific tasks. First, a culture system of human respiratory epithelial cells was set up…
- Read how researchers will use genome sequencing to study the fungal genus Candida in hospitals to limit its transmission.
- Project descriptionMycobacterium tuberculosis is the causative agent of tuberculosis (TB), a disease responsible for almost 1.5 million deaths per year. In recent years, different classes of drug resistant strains have emerged, making the discovery of novel tuberculostatic drugs a major priority. A major disadvantage of most existing and new TB compounds is that they target a single molecule…
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In a growing number of calls for grant applications, ZonMw allows the production of FAIR (meta)data in projects. This page provides information about ZonMw's approach for this. That is followed by instructions for what grant applicants and recipients must do to get started with FAIR (meta)data. - Resistance against β-lactam antibiotics is a serious health issue. Often it is caused by bacteria producing enzymes capable of inactivating these antibiotics, β-lactamases. This can be prevented by combining the antibiotic with a compound able to inhibit the bacterial enzyme. AimThe aim of this project was to find new β-lactamase inhibitors. To achieve this a large botanical extract library was…
- Resistance to antibiotics is increasing worldwide and alternatives are sought for antimicrobial treatment. AimThe overall purpose was to explore and identify antibiotics and non-antibiotics more active in combination than alone (called synergism) against multi- drug resistant bacteria. The tasks of the EMC involved the overall coordination of the project, identification of synergistic combinations…
- Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is characterised by clonal spread. MRSA clones are unequally distributed across the world and different clones are dominant at different times. AimThe MACOTRA project studied the interaction between MRSA, humans and the environment. The researchers used mathematical models to gain a better understanding of MRSA dynamics.ResultsA main predictor of…
- Read more about the treatment of urinary tract infections (UTIs) without signs of tissue invasion (afebrile UTI (a-UTI)) in men in general practice
- In this controlled study the acceptability, utility and feasibility of self-swabbing instead of physician-swabbing will be evaluated.