Novel Approaches to Prevent and Combat Antimicrobial Resistance
A special issue of Antibiotics (ISSN 2079-6382).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2025 | Viewed by 117
Special Issue Editor
Interests: microbiome; antimicrobial resistance; metagenomic next generation sequencing (mNGS); bioinformatics
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a critical global health challenge and hidden pandemic, killing millions every year. They threaten the effectiveness of existing treatments with drug-resistant infections. The rise in multidrug-resistant pathogens calls for urgent action to discover and implement innovative approaches to prevent their spread and treat them.
This Special Issue invites original research articles, reviews, and perspectives on novel approaches to tackling and mitigating AMR.
We welcome contributions in, but not limited to, the following areas:
- Antimicrobial Peptides (AMPs): Discovery, mechanisms, and applications of novel AMPs as next-generation antimicrobials.
- Novel Antibiotics Screening: Development and testing of new antibiotics, including novel compounds and natural product-based discovery, targeting resistant pathogens with new mechanisms of working.
- Phage Therapy: The use of bacteriophages/phage cocktails and engineered phages to target drug-resistant infections.
- Fecal Microbiota Transplantation (FMT): Exploring gut microbiome restoration as a strategy to reduce AMR burden.
- Dietary and Functional Food Interventions: The role of diet, prebiotics, and probiotics in shaping the microbiome and reducing AMR risks and infectious risk.
- AMR Prevention Strategies:
- Antibiotic Stewardship: Optimizing antibiotic use in clinical, agricultural, and veterinary settings.
- Infection Control Measures: Surveillance, hygiene, and public health strategies to prevent the spread of resistant pathogens.
- Environmental and One Health Approaches: Understanding how water, soil, animals, and climate change contribute to AMR emergence and implementing strategies to reduce environmental reservoirs of resistance genes.
We encourage interdisciplinary studies that integrate microbiology, bioinformatics, clinical research, and public health to address AMR from a One Health perspective and focus on intervention and prevention.
Dr. Xiaotao Jiang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- antimicrobial peptides
- novel antibiotics screening
- phage therapy
- fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT)
- dietary and functional food interventions
- AMR prevention strategies
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