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. 2022 Nov 9;39(1):7. doi: 10.1007/s11274-022-03445-8

Table 2.

Non-metabolite stimulators of bactericidal activity of aminoglycosides

Effector Hypothesised mechanism Bacterial species References
n-butanol PMF dependent S. aureus, S. pyogenes, E. faecalis, S. epidermidis, Lv et al. (2022)
Iron PMF dependent and PMF independent E. coli Kohanski et al. (2007); Ezraty et al. (2013); Dwyer et al. (2015); Ezraty and Barras (2016)
Silver PMF independent E. coli, C. difficile Morones-Ramirez et al. (2013); Herisse et al. (2017)
Rhamnolipids PMF independent S. aureus Radlinski et al. (2019)
Rapid freezing PMF independent E. coli, P. aeruginosa Zhao et al. (2020)

The hypothesised mechanism of aminoglycoside potentiation is displayed along with the bacterial species tested