Antibiotics and Environment—Research and Development Toward the One Health Approach, 2nd Edition
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: 30 April 2026
Special Issue Editor
Interests: antibiotics; occurrence; wastewater; river; aquatic environment; ecotoxicity; antimicrobial-resistance (AMR); advanced water treatment; environmental risk assessment
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Across the world, research is being undertaken on health and environmental risk assessments and countermeasures against antimicrobial resistance (AMR). The spread of antimicrobial-resistant bacteria is a source of increasing concern regarding the future of antimicrobial use and other measures of controlling infectious diseases, and the problem of antimicrobial-resistant bacteria is now considered a key issue requiring urgent countermeasures and effective action from the World Health Organization (WHO). In addition to clinical cases, community-acquired infections caused by healthy carriers and outbreaks of antimicrobial-resistant strains originating from livestock, fisheries, and other industries are becoming problematic. It is essential that we comprehensively understand trends in antimicrobial-resistant bacteria on a global scale, and a One Health approach is ideal in combating all these problems. The problem of antimicrobial-resistant bacteria in the environment manifests itself in a wide variety of systems originating from humans and animals that occur simultaneously, in a complex mixture. Assessing the present situation, clarifying occurrence and fate in the environment, assessing environmental risks, and taking effective measures to reduce or mitigate risks are methods that can provide useful knowledge in finding a point of coexistence between modern, affluent lifestyles and sustainable human existence.
This Special Issue will explore the topics of antimicrobials and the environment or antimicrobial-resistant bacteria and antimicrobials in the environment, looking at broad environmental spaces, including rivers, lakes, marine areas, water treatment plants, wastewater treatment plants, and animal and livestock facilities. We invite research papers on the current situation in terms of occurrence and dynamics, as well as purification methods that could be effective in reducing or mitigating human and animal health risks. For this Special Issue, we also welcome review articles that propose the development of analytical methods based on novel approaches, summarize past research cases, and propose future measures to combat antimicrobial-resistant bacteria through the One Health approach.
Dr. Takashi Azuma
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- antimicrobial resistance (AMR)
- antimicrobials
- water purification plant (WTP)
- wastewater treatment plant (WWTP)
- hospital wastewater
- livestock environment
- aquaculture farm environment
- aquatic environment
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