Alternative Approaches to Treating Antimicrobial Resistant Infections, 4th Edition
A special issue of Antibiotics (ISSN 2079-6382). This special issue belongs to the section "Antibiotic Therapy in Infectious Diseases".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2026
Special Issue Editors
Interests: intracellular pathogens; genome evolution; drug screening; redox biology; drug repurposing
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Interests: Metabolic evolution; opportunistic pathogens; cystic fibrosis; Pseudomonas aeruginosa; Staphylococcus aureus
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue will focus on alternative approaches to treating antimicrobial-resistant infections. The discovery of antibiotics revolutionized the clinical treatment of bacterial infections; however, this fundamental pillar of modern medicine is now crumbling. The development of novel antimicrobials has slowed down in recent years, and major pharmaceutical firms have withdrawn from the field of anti-infective research due to its low profitability.
As a consequence, many infections are now difficult to treat, which is raising mortality and healthcare-associated costs due to difficulties in accomplishing total remission. Antimicrobial resistance is now considered to be one of the greatest risks to humanity. Common surgical procedures and treatments that could lead to immunosuppression may soon be considered high-risk due to the antibiotic crisis (e.g., cancer chemotherapy or organ transplants).
We are therefore inviting both reviews and original articles on the latest developments in novel antibacterial strategies with which to treat infections caused by antimicrobial-resistant pathogens. Topics include the development of novel combinatorial therapies based on the repurposing of anti-infectives, host-targeted therapies, bacteriophages, the use of predatory bacteria, bacteriocins, antimicrobial peptides, nanoparticles, natural compounds, immunotherapeutics, probiotics used for the competitive exclusion of pathogens, and the development of novel antibacterial compounds.
Dr. Michal Letek
Dr. Volker Behrends
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- repurposing
- anti-infectives
- host-targeted therapies
- bacteriophages
- predatory bacteria
- bacteriocins
- antimicrobial peptides
- nanoparticles
- natural compounds
- immunotherapy
- probiotics
- antibiotics
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