Challenges and Strategies for the Antibiotic Resistance Crisis
A special issue of Antibiotics (ISSN 2079-6382).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2025 | Viewed by 1171
Special Issue Editors
Interests: antimicrobial agents; emerging antimicrobial strategies; antimicrobial resistance; biofilms; plant secondary metabolites
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Interests: mycotoxins; fungal metabolites; antimicrobial; anticancer; antinflammatory; antioxidant
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue is compiled in cooperation with the 4th International Electronic Conference on Antibiotics, organized by Antibiotics from 21 to 23 May 2025 on the MDPI Sciforum platform (https://sciforum.net/event/ECA2025). We welcome submissions from the scientific community and stakeholders to present and discuss recent advances in antibiotic research.
The following areas were covered:
- Antibiotics Stewardship and Antimicrobial Use in Healthcare Settings;
- Antibiotics and One Health;
- Epidemiology, Prevalence and Mechanisms of Antibiotics Resistance and Cross-Resistance;
- Novel Antimicrobial Agents: Discovery, Design, Synthesis and Action;
- Multidisciplinary Antimicrobial Strategies: Materials, Peptides, Bacteriophages and Repurposing;
- Antibiotic Clinical Studies, Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics;
- Clinical and Environmental Impact of Bacterial Biofilms;
- Artificial Intelligence Strategies to Tackle Antibiotic Resistance.
Dr. Manuel Simões
Dr. Marc Maresca
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Antibiotics is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.
Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2900 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.
Keywords
- antibiotics stewardship
- antimicrobial use
- antibiotics resistance
- novel antimicrobial agents
- multidisciplinary antimicrobial strategies
- antibiotic clinical studies
- artificial intelligence strategies
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