Antibiotic Resistance in Pathogenic Bacteria
A special issue of Microorganisms (ISSN 2076-2607). This special issue belongs to the section "Antimicrobial Agents and Resistance".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2025 | Viewed by 47
Special Issue Editors
Interests: natural transformation; antimicrobial resistance; mobile genetic elements; Gram-negative bacteria; One Health
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Interests: molecular epidemiology; antimicrobial resistance; horizontal gene transfer; Gram-negative bacteria; One Health
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Antibiotic resistance is a global health threat impacting Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria. An increasing number of strains are now virtually resistant to all available antibiotics, making infectious diseases difficult or impossible to treat. The World Health Organization has identified species that urgently require new antimicrobials. At the same time, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has highlighted the species posing the most significant health threats due to antibiotic resistance. Several species appear on both lists.
Understanding the mechanisms of antimicrobial resistance, their acquisition, and the events associated with the dissemination of resistance determinants is essential to developing strategies to overcome resistance. This Special Issue thus welcomes original research or review manuscripts focused on the molecular mechanisms of resistance and dissemination, bacterial strategies to evade antimicrobial action, specific resistant bacterial strains, antimicrobial stewardship, novel strategic therapeutics to fight resistant infections, and broader scientific concepts related to this critical global health challenge in the most impactful human pathogens.
Dr. Sara Domingues
Dr. Gabriela Jorge Da Silva
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- antibiotic resistance genes
- antibiotic resistance mechanisms
- multidrug-resistant bacteria
- mobile genetic elements
- horizontal gene transfer
- antibiotic stewardship
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