Genomic Analysis of Antibiotics Resistance in 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: closed (31 March 2022) | Viewed by 48798
Special Issue Editor
Interests: bacterial genomics; microbiome dynamics; evolution
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Dear Colleagues,
The emergence of antibiotic-resistant pathogens currently poses a serious threat to public health and the economy. Due to antibiotic treatments in humans and in veterinary medicine, pathogenic bacteria are the most frequently exposed to unnatural doses of antibiotics and their selective effect.
In bacteria, resistance to antibiotics can be encoded on chromosomes, plasmids, or other mobile genetic elements. It can also result from mutations that lead to changes in the antibiotics’ affinity for their targets or in the antibiotics' ability to act on bacterial growth or death. The exposure of bacteria, bacterial populations, and microbial communities to antibiotics, at different concentrations, shapes their genomic dynamics, such as the mobilization and spreading of resistance determinants. It is essential to understand the dynamics and mobilization of the genes that encode antibiotic resistance, in human, animal, plant, and environmental microbiomes, through genomic and metagenomic approaches and bioinformatics analyses.
This Special Issue seeks manuscript submissions on the horizontal transfer of antibiotic-resistance genes, their dissemination and epidemiology, association with bacterial virulence, between bacterial genotypes and their phenotypes, or any related research topic.
Dr. Teresa V. Nogueira
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- antibiotic resistance
- genome analysis
- metagenome analysis
- horizontal gene transfer
- clinical microbiology
- veterinary microbiology
- superbugs
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