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Clinical Microbiology Reviews, October 2002, p. 647-679, Vol. 15, No. 4
0893-8512/02/$04.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/CMR.15.4.647-679.2002
Copyright © 2002, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Interactions among Strategies Associated with Bacterial Infection: Pathogenicity, Epidemicity, and Antibiotic Resistance{dagger}

José L. Martínez1* and Fernando Baquero2

Departamento de Biotecnología Microbiana, Centro Nacional de Biotecnología,1 Servicio de Microbiología, Hospital Ramón y Cajal, Madrid, Spain2

Infections have been the major cause of disease throughout the history of human populations. With the introduction of antibiotics, it was thought that this problem should disappear. However, bacteria have been able to evolve to become antibiotic resistant. Nowadays, a proficient pathogen must be virulent, epidemic, and resistant to antibiotics. Analysis of the interplay among these features of bacterial populations is needed to predict the future of infectious diseases. In this regard, we have reviewed the genetic linkage of antibiotic resistance and bacterial virulence in the same genetic determinants as well as the cross talk between antibiotic resistance and virulence regulatory circuits with the aim of understanding the effect of acquisition of resistance on bacterial virulence. We also discuss the possibility that antibiotic resistance and bacterial virulence might prevail as linked phenotypes in the future. The novel situation brought about by the worldwide use of antibiotics is undoubtedly changing bacterial populations. These changes might alter the properties of not only bacterial pathogens, but also the normal host microbiota. The evolutionary consequences of the release of antibiotics into the environment are largely unknown, but most probably restoration of the microbiota from the preantibiotic era is beyond our current abilities.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Departamento de Biotecnología, Microbiana, Centro Nacional de Biotecnología, CSIC, Campus Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid, Spain. Phone: 34 91 5854571. Fax: 34 91 5854506. E-mail: jlmtnez{at}cnb.uam.es.

{dagger} This work is dedicated to the memory of our good friend Cristina Negri.

Clinical Microbiology Reviews, October 2002, p. 647-679, Vol. 15, No. 4
0893-8512/02/$04.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/CMR.15.4.647-679.2002
Copyright © 2002, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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