Charlotte Cornbill
c-cornbill.bsky.social
Charlotte Cornbill
@c-cornbill.bsky.social
PhD student in the evolution of antimicrobial resistance
Reposted by Charlotte Cornbill
Low doses of tEDTA kill P. aeruginosa in models of chronic wound and CF lung #biofilm, but not in a model of endotracheal tube colonisation: preprint from a project led by @tosinorababa.bsky.social and implemented by a crack team of PhD students! #MicroSky www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Low concentrations of tetrasodium EDTA cause significant killing of biofilm-associated P. aeruginosa in high validity models of chronic wound and CF lung infections but not in a model of endotracheal tube colonisation
Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a pathogen notorious for its antimicrobial resistance and is currently classified as a high-priority pathogen for which new drugs are needed. Tetrasodium EDTA (tEDTA) is one of the new antimicrobial compounds that have been shown to have good antibacterial and antibiofilm efficacy against P. aeruginosa. Due to the diversity and highly drug-tolerant nature of P. aeruginosa biofilms in different infection environments, it is important to carry out pre-clinical testing of new antibiofilm agents against this pathogen in media and models that accurately mimic diverse infection environments. In this study, we used different high validity media and biofilm models that mimic chronic wounds, endotracheal tubes, and cystic fibrosis lung infections to assess the efficacy of tEDTA against P. aeruginosa biofilms. We report that different infection environments influence the susceptibility of both planktonic and biofilm forms of P. aeruginosa to tEDTA. The highest tolerance to tEDTA was observed in the media and biofilm model that mimics the endotracheal tube environment. In conclusion, we show that although different infection environments influence the efficacy of tEDTA against P. aeruginosa biofilms, it has good potential for use as an alternative antimicrobial in treating P. aeruginosa-associated biofilm infections. ### Competing Interest Statement The authors have declared no competing interest.
www.biorxiv.org
November 10, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Reposted by Charlotte Cornbill
Our antibiotics are under threat. 💊

Antimicrobial resistance is already causing them to be less effective at fighting some infections. We’re on a mission to save these precious medicines and Andi Biotic is leading the way.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTsO...

#AMR #AntimicrobialResistance 🧪
Join Andi Biotic on his antimicrobial resistance (AMR) mission!
YouTube video by UK Health Security Agency
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April 8, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Reposted by Charlotte Cornbill
And in a clash, we have @c-cornbill.bsky.social from Warwick (supervisor @friendlymicrobe.bsky.social) talking about the variability in AMR evolution in different host mimicking media in the "AMR - Mechanism and Regulation" (2/5)
April 1, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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#weekendreading🔬📑

Programmable engineered bacteria as sustained-releasing antibody factory in situ for enhancing tumor immune checkpoint therapy

@science.org in Science Advances #microsky

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Programmable engineered bacteria as sustained-releasing antibody factory in situ for enhancing tumor immune checkpoint therapy
The bacterial antibody factory promotes macrophage phagocytosis for improving immune checkpoint therapy.
www.science.org
March 28, 2025 at 2:46 PM