Healthcare-Associated Infections and Antimicrobial Therapy—2nd Edition
A special issue of Microorganisms (ISSN 2076-2607). This special issue belongs to the section "Medical Microbiology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2025 | Viewed by 94
Special Issue Editors
Interests: antimicrobial stewardship; infection control; infectious diseases
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2. Department of Internal Medicine & Infectious Diseases, University Hospital of Heraklion, 71110 Heraklion, Crete, Greece
Interests: clinical microbiology; infectious diseases; endocarditis; mycoses; fungal infections
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue is the continuation of our previous Special Issue, entitled "Healthcare-Associated Infections and Antimicrobial Therapy".
Hospital-acquired infections occur frequently among hospitalized patients and are associated with a significant increase in morbidity and mortality, with the most common hospital-acquired infections including bloodstream infections and respiratory tract and urinary tract infections. Currently, several changes regarding the epidemiology and microbiology of hospital-acquired infections are being noted, and these mostly have to do with the increasing problem of antimicrobial resistance either in Gram-positives, such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus, or in Gram-negatives, such as carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales, extensively-drug resistant and pan-drug resistant Acinetobacter baumannii, and multi-drug resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa. The problem of increasing antimicrobial resistance leaves few therapeutic options, leading to the revival of old antibiotics or the use of antimicrobial combinations in difficult-to-treat pathogens.
To arrive at a better understanding of the problem of hospital-acquired infections and the changes in the antimicrobial treatment thereof, this Special Issue aims to bring together original studies and literature reviews related to the epidemiology, microbiology, clinical characteristics, treatment, and outcomes of these infections. Furthermore, studies focusing on antimicrobial stewardship and infection control regarding hospital-acquired infections are also welcome.
Dr. Diamantis P. Kofteridis
Dr. Petros Ioannou
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- clinical microbiology
- healthcare-associated infections
- antimicrobial therapy
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