Antibiotics Resistance in Animals and the Environment

Dear Colleagues,

Antimicrobial resistance is one of the greatest challenges facing global health security in the modern era. Prevention of this looming “epidemic” requires a better understanding of the factors contributing to the development and spread of resistance, novel interventions, and strategies to break the transmission cycle. Wildlife, particularly animals that roam urban areas, is an important but mostly overlooked component of epidemiology of antimicrobial resistance. Studies continue to uncover many common intrinsic and horizontal transfer mechanisms of resistance from wild birds, mammals, insects, and their environment. Many of these wildlife animals travel great distances, making them an ideal sentinel and a vehicle for rapid dissemination of resistance. This Special Issue seeks manuscript submissions that further our understanding of antimicrobial resistance in wildlife and their environment. Submissions on targeted surveillance of wildlife, sympatric animals and invertebrates, and isolation of microbes harboring novel mutations and mobile genetic elements associated with extended spectrum beta-lactams, carbapenems, methicillin, and vancomycin are especially encouraged.

Dr. Anil Poudel
Guest Editor

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