Antibiotic Resistance and Antimicrobial Use in Elderly Patients, 2nd Edition
A special issue of Antibiotics (ISSN 2079-6382). This special issue belongs to the section "Antibiotics Use and Antimicrobial Stewardship".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2025 | Viewed by 139
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The first edition of the Special Issue “Antibiotic Resistance and Antimicrobial Use in Elderly Patients” was published in 2021. It is a successful collection comprising eight excellent papers, and it has encouraged us to publish a second edition within the same area.
As a continuation of the first Special Issue, this second edition focuses on antimicrobial use in elderly and very elderly patients, including (but not limited to) the following topics:
- Specific approaches to antimicrobial therapy in elderly populations;
- Antimicrobial use in the multi-therapy and multi-morbid patients;
- Recurrent infections, sepsis, and antimicrobial therapy in frail patients;
- Antibiotic stewardship in elderly people;
- Changes in microbiota and antibiotic therapy in the elderly;
- Role of new technologies (bacteriophages/probiotics, machine learning, etc.) to control antimicrobial-resistant organisms in the elderly.
Dr. Marcello Covino
Dr. Giuseppe De Matteis
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- elderly
- oldest old
- antimicrobial resistance
- antibiotic stewardship
- probiotics
- microbiota
- multi-morbidity
- multi-therapy
- sepsis
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