Antimicrobial Prescribing, Population Use and Resistance, Impact in Global Health, 3rd Edition
A special issue of Antibiotics (ISSN 2079-6382). This special issue belongs to the section "Antibiotics Use and Antimicrobial Stewardship".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2025 | Viewed by 652
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Interests: interventions in public health; active aging; care in chronic diseases; food and nutrition; antibiotics and bacterial resistance; community nursing; health research; epidemiology
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We have published two successful editions of the Special Issue “Antimicrobial Prescribing, Population Use and Resistance and Impact in Global Health", and this encouraged us to launch a third edition focused on the same topic.
As a continuation of the previous Special Issues, this third edition will continue to address various public health strategies and interventions, as well as the application of innovations in managing antibiotics at the hospital level, to reduce the rate of antimicrobial resistance in the future. This Special Issue welcomes original research papers, reviews, qualitative research, and perspectives.
Potential topics for this Special Issue include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Novel methods for promoting appropriate antibiotic utilization;
- Influence of antimicrobial utilization changes on antimicrobial resistance;
- Antimicrobial utilization in special populations (e.g., pediatrics, geriatrics, emergency medicine, chronic diseases at the primary care level, etc.);
- Knowledge, attitudes and practice regarding antibiotic utilization and antimicrobial resistance in public and/or healthcare workers;
- New strategies to reduce antimicrobial resistances in hospitalized patients;
- New approaches to public health interventions for improving antibiotic utilization;
- Risk-stratified approaches for treating common infections in hospitalized patients.
Dr. Juan Manuel Vázquez-Lago
Dr. Ana Estany-Gestal
Dr. Angel Salgado-Barreira
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.
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
- epidemiology
- social behavior
- antibiotic resistance
- social factors
- attitudes
- knowledge
- practice
- qualitative research
- public health interventions
- antibiotic prescription
- community care
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