Challenges of Antibiotic Resistance: Biofilms and Anti-Biofilm Agents
A special issue of Antibiotics (ISSN 2079-6382). This special issue belongs to the section "Antibiofilm Strategies".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 December 2025 | Viewed by 108
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Interests: food safety; essential oils; agroindustrial byproducts; antibacterial and antibiofilm agents; quorum sensing
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Interests: food safety; essential oils; bioactive compounds; terpenes; antibacterial and antibiofilm agents
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Antibiotic resistance is a global health crisis, as the rise in antibiotic-resistant bacteria has significantly increased the number of deaths each year because infections are becoming increasingly difficult to manage. This resistance is attributed to the overuse and misuse of antibiotics and microorganisms’ ability to form biofilms, which is a significant problem in several sectors, such as healthcare settings, the food industry, and environmental systems. Biofilms are complex communities of microorganisms embedded in a self-produced matrix of extracellular polymeric substances composed of carbohydrates, proteins, lipids, and extracellular DNA. This complex structure protects microorganisms from the action of antibiotics, as well as other environmental stresses. This resilience makes biofilms a critical factor in the growing challenge of antimicrobial resistance. In this sense, there is a need to find new antibiofilm agents that inhibit biofilm development and contribute to reducing bacterial antibiotic resistance.
This Special Issue invites researchers to publish studies regarding new antibiofilm agents (phytochemicals, synthetic drugs, nanoparticles, etc.) and their impacts on biofilms, virulence factors, and antibiotic resistance mechanisms.
Dr. María Melissa Gutiérrez-Pacheco
Dr. Luis Alberto Ortega-Ramirez
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- antibiotic resistance
- biofilms
- quorum sensing
- virulence factors
- resistance mechanisms
- antibiofilm agents
- natural compounds
- synthetic drugs
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