Publications

Selected Journal Articles

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Kornelsen, V.  and Kumar A. (2021). Atorvastatin does not display an antimicrobial activity on its own nor potentiates the activity of other antibiotics against Acinetobacter baumannii ATCC17978 or A. baumannii AB030. Access Microbiology. 3:000288 . [Link]

Kornelsen, V.  and Kumar A. (2021). Update on Multidrug Resistance Efflux Pumps in Acinetobacter spp. . Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. 65: e00514-21 . [Link]

Cadogan K, Bashar S, Magnusson S, Patidar R, Embil J, Gawaziuk J P, Gawthrop M, Liu S, Kumar A, and Logsetty S.  (2021). Assessment of cleaning methods on bacterial burden of hospital privacy curtains: a pilot randomized controlled trial. Scientific Reports. 11:21866  . [Link]

di Biase A, Flores-Orozco, Patidar R, Kowalski MS, Jabari P, Kumar A, Devlin TR, Oleszkiewicz JA. (2022). Performance and recovery of nitrifying biofilm after exposure to prolonged starvation. Chemosphere. 290: 133323 [Link] 

Sykes EME, Deo S and Kumar A. (2020). Recent advances in genetic tools for Acinetobacter baumannii. Frontiers in Genetics. 11:601380 . [Link]

Singh M,  Sykes EME, Li Y,  and Kumar A. (2020). MexXY RND pump of Pseudomonas aeruginosa PA7 effluxes bi-anionic β-lactams carbenicillin and sulbenicillin when it partners with the outer membrane factor OprA but not with OprM . Microbiology. 166:1095-1106 . [Link]

Singh M, De Silva PM, Al-Saadi Y, Switala J, Loewen PC, Hausner G, Wangxue C, Hernandez I, Castillo-Ramirez S and Kumar A. (2020). Characterization of extremely drug-resistant and hypervirulent Acinetobacter baumannii AB030. Antibiotics (Basel). 9:E328 . [Link]

De Silva PM,  Patidar R, Graham CI, Brassinga AKC and Kumar A. (2020). A response regulator protein with Antar domain, AvnR, in Acinetobacter baumannii ATCC 17978 impacts its virulence and amino acid metabolism. Microbiology. 166:554-566 . [Link]

Flores-Orozco D, Patidar R, Levin DB, Sparling R, Kumar A, and Çiçek N. (2020). Effect of ceftiofur on mesophilic anaerobic digestion of dairy manure and the reduction of the cephalosporin-resistance gene cmy-2. Bioresource Technology. 301:122729. [Link]