Optimization of Antibiotic Use in Hospitals: From Bench to Bedside
A special issue of Antibiotics (ISSN 2079-6382). This special issue belongs to the section "Antibiotics Use and Antimicrobial Stewardship".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2026 | Viewed by 304
Special Issue Editors
Interests: antimicrobial drugs; antimicrobial resistance; antimicrobial PK/PD
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Interests: biology of pathogens (e.g., bacteria, viruses, parasites, fungi); mechanisms of infection; antimicrobials; antimicrobial resistance
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Interests: antibiotic resistance; molecular mechanisms of resistance; bone infection
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Antimicrobial resistance is currently recognized as one of the most important clinical emergencies in hospital wards all around the world. It is particularly present in infectious disease wards, intensive care wards, orthopedics wards, and surgical departments, and it is carefully studied in research laboratories and pharmaceutical industries. This emergency can be fought through supporting research on the discovery of new antibiotics, implementing rapid diagnostic tests to identify resistant microorganisms and their resistance to old and new antibiotics.
On this basis, appropriate antibiotic selection involves selecting the appropriate antibiotics for the resistant microorganisms involved in the infection. The prescription of different antibiotics must be personalized according to the microorganism involved and each patient’s characteristics, as well as based on the ideal dose and time of administration. Moreover, it is necessary to encourage the overall deprescription of antibiotics and to decrease the duration of therapy. It is critical that the pharmacodynamic and pharmacokinetic regulations (concentration- and time-dependent characteristics) surrounding antibiotic use are strictly respected, and that administration involves specialists from various medical disciplines to form a multidisciplinary team. The strict application of these concepts will enable us to contain and reduce the emergence of antimicrobial drug resistance.
This Special Issue invites submissions of original research articles and review papers. The scope of research topics encompasses, but is not limited to, the rational application of antibiotics in clinical infections, the influence of antibiotic consumption on resistance profiles, and the underlying mechanisms governing the development of antibiotic resistance.
Dr. Anna Benini
Prof. Dr. Davide Gibellini
Dr. Annarita Mazzariol
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- resistant microorganisms
- antimicrobial resistance
- new antibiotics
- deprescribing of antibiotics
- PK/PD parameters
- diagnostic tests
- multidisciplinary team
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