Antimicrobial Use and Antimicrobial Resistance in the COVID-19 Context
A special issue of Antibiotics (ISSN 2079-6382).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2023) | Viewed by 292
Special Issue Editor
Interests: HCAI; AMR; health systems; data linkage; economic evaluation of antimicrobial stewardship and infection prevention and control
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has been one of the top priorities for global public health. Already being a complex challenge, AMR now needs to be addressed in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Changes in incidence of infection cases, prescribing and dispensing practice of antimicrobial drugs, and newly emerged drug resistant pathogens, required continued monitoring. COVID-19, and the policy responses to it around the globe, also affected infection prevention activities, AMR surveillance, and in general how healthcare services were provided. In this special issue, we aimed to gather the recent research in the impact of COVID-19 on antimicrobial use, and the emergence, transmission, and burden of AMR in different health settings. Though this process, we aim to provide evidence to support clinical practice, policy design and implementation, and set future research priorities for AMR.
We seek original research articles, literature reviews, and commentary pieces in the following topics:
- Antimicrobial prescribing and dispensing, with a focus on antibiotic drugs.
- Co-infections and secondary-infections caused by resistant pathogens in COVID-19 patients.
- Infections caused by resistant pathogens in both COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 patients.
- Newly emerged resistant pathogens during the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Analysis of the impact of COVID-19 on AMR policies, antimicrobial stewardship, and health systems and health services.
- Epidemiological and health economic burden of AMR in the COVID-19 context.
- Diagnostic tools or clinical decision support tools for infection caused by resistant pathogens.
- Learning from the COVID-19 pandemic on infection prevention and control (IPC), surveillance, health systems strengthening.
Dr. Nina Jiayue Zhu
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- antimicrobial stewardship
- antimicrobial resistance
- infection prevention and control
- COVID-19
- antifungal use
- fungal infections
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