Antimicrobial Resistance Genes: Spread and Evolution
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: 20 August 2024 | Viewed by 3300
Special Issue Editors
Interests: microbiology; antimicrobial resistance; infectious diseases; epidemiology; evolution; population genetics of pathogens
Interests: medical microbiology; mycology; antimicrobial resistance; molecular microbiology
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Microbes are ubiquitous in the world in which we live. As microbes must face variable environments, many different adaptive strategies can simultaneously exist. Multi-resistance (i.e., resistance to three or more drug classes) is considered to be a key indicator of microbes, because it reduces the options of treatment that are appropriate, and facilitates the transmission of antimicrobial-resistant strains to the community and vice versa. The burden of resistant strains and the threat posed by their increasing incidence worldwide have both healthcare and economic impacts. Besides being used for human therapy, antimicrobials are extensively used for animal farming and for agricultural purposes. Nevertheless, the effect of the use of antimicrobials on the biosphere is wider than this and can impact the structure and activity of environmental microbiota. The clearest consequence of antimicrobial release in natural environments is the emergence and selection of resistant bacteria.
This Special Issue seeks manuscript submissions that further our understanding of antimicrobial resistance, including: a) the identification of epidemic and persistent strains; b) the identification of reservoirs of resistant strains that could persist in the hospital and natural environment, but also in animal and food sources; c) the elucidation of mechanisms of the acquisition and spread of resistance and virulence factors amongst microbial populations; and d) the investigation of gene flow and the evolutionary pathways of antimicrobial resistance among microbial populations.
Dr. Angeliki Mavroidi
Dr. Georgia Vrioni
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- microbes
- antimicrobial resistance
- resistance genes
- gene flow
- evolution
Planned Papers
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Comprehensive analysis of virulence determinants and genomic islands of blaNDM-1-producing Enterobacter hormaechei clinical isolates from Greece
Angeliki Mavroidi