Dissemination and Evolution of Multidrug-Resistant Gram-Negative Bacterial Pathogens
A special issue of Antibiotics (ISSN 2079-6382).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2023) | Viewed by 190
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Interests: antibiotic resistance; microbiology; antibiotics; bacterial antibiotic resistance; bacteriology; antimicrobial resistance; antibacterial activity; general microbiology; microbial isolation
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Dear Colleagues,
The uninterrupted evolution of antimicrobial resistance has become a global epidemic. The antimicrobial resistance epidemic causes millions of deaths worldwide attributable to and associated with this phenomenon.
Among the leading bacterial pathogens associated with multidrug resistance are four Gram-negative bacteria: Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Acinetobacter baumannii, and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. The antimicrobial resistance pandemic is compounded by the lack of antibiotics for the appropriate treatment of infections caused by multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria. Gram-negative pathogens, e.g., Acinetobacter baumannii, disseminate readily in hospitals. The population predominantly affected includes the immunosuppressed, patients with comorbidities, the frail and elderly, and patients treated in intensive care units. The antibiotic resistance problem is a present danger, and all involved must confront it, i.e., clinicians, researchers, hospitals, the government, and individuals.
Dr. Eduardo Rodríguez-Noriega
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- gram-negative bacteria
- multidrug-resistant
- antimicrobial resistance
- Escherichia coli
- Klebsiella pneumoniae
- Acinetobacter baumannii
- Pseudomonas aeruginosa
