Biogenic tellurium nanorods as a novel antivirulence agent inhibiting pyoverdine production in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

• Main Authors: Mohanty, Anee, Kathawala, Mustafa Hussain, Zhang, Jianhua, Yang, Liang, Kjelleberg, Staffan, Cao, Bin, Chen, William Wei Ning, Loo, Joachim Say Chye
• Other Authors: School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Chemical engineering::Biotechnology
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/99766; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/17820
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

While antibiotic resistance in bacteria is rapidly increasing, the development of new antibiotics has decreased in recent years. Antivirulence drugs disarming rather than killing pathogens have been proposed to alleviate the problem of resistance inherent to existing biocidal antibiotics. Here, we r...