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Restoration of antibacterial activity of inactive antibiotics via combined treatment with a cyanographene/Ag nanohybrid

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SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
Volume 12, Issue 1, Pages -

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NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-09294-7

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  1. Ministry of Health of the Czech Republic [NU20-05-00165]

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This study reports an effective way of enhancing and restoring the antibacterial activity of inactive antibiotics by using a cyanographene/Ag nanohybrid. The combined treatment showed synergistic and partial synergistic effects against multiresistant bacterial strains, indicating the potential of the nanohybrid in overcoming antibiotic resistance. The study also revealed that the interaction between the antibiotic's mode of action and the bacterial resistance mechanism strongly influenced the efficacy of the combined treatment.
The number of antibiotic-resistant bacterial strains is increasing due to the excessive and inappropriate use of antibiotics, which are therefore becoming ineffective. Here, we report an effective way of enhancing and restoring the antibacterial activity of inactive antibiotics by applying them together with a cyanographene/Ag nanohybrid, a nanomaterial that is applied for the first time for restoring the antibacterial activity of antibiotics. The cyanographene/Ag nanohybrid was synthesized by chemical reduction of a precursor material in which silver cations are coordinated on a cyanographene sheet. The antibacterial efficiency of the combined treatment was evaluated by determining fractional inhibitory concentrations (FIC) for antibiotics with different modes of action (gentamicin, ceftazidime, ciprofloxacin, and colistin) against the strains Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Enterobacter kobei with different resistance mechanisms. Synergistic and partial synergistic effects against multiresistant strains were demonstrated for all of these antibiotics except ciprofloxacin, which exhibited an additive effect. The lowest average FICs equal to 0.29 and 0.39 were obtained for colistin against E. kobei and for gentamicin against E. coli, respectively. More importantly, we have experimentally confirmed for the first time, that interaction between the antibiotic's mode of action and the mechanism of bacterial resistance strongly influenced the combined treatment's efficacy.

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