Genomic Analysis of Drug-Resistant Pathogens
A special issue of Antibiotics (ISSN 2079-6382). This special issue belongs to the section "Mechanism and Evolution of Antibiotic Resistance".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 May 2025 | Viewed by 107
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Dear Colleagues,
With the advent of new sequencing technologies, microbiology is perfecting the approach of what, twenty years ago, was called pharmacogenomics.
The spread of antimicrobial resistance genes is considered a major public health threat. Mobile genetic elements are the drivers of spreading antimicrobial resistance by horizontal gene transfer. The study of mutations associated with resistance occurring during therapy or the presence of mobile genetic elements has made it possible to understand better the evolution of resistance. Being able to sequence the genomes of multidrug-resistant pathogens implicated in the infections allows us to understand the dynamics and the mobilization of the genes involved in the spread of antimicrobial resistance. Currently, multiple technologies allow the sequencing of a part or all of a microorganism’s genome, but they are not always used consciously.
In this Special Issue, we would like to collect papers, reviews, and case reports in which the different potentials of these sequencing technologies are highlighted in order to be able to provide the reader with an update and a broader view of the problem of drug resistance.
Dr. Erica Diani
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- multi-drug resistant
- mutation
- bacteria
- NGS
- sequencing
- mobile genetics elements
- gene transfer
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