Antimicrobial Resistance: What Can We Learn from Genomics?

Dear Colleagues,

Internationalization and industrialization have dramatically changed the vulnerability of human and animal populations to emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases, changing both the scale and pace of disease outbreaks. Luckily, over the past decade, the development of high-throughput sequencing has facilitated considerable progress in the detection pathogens and strategies for outbreak response efforts. It is now feasible to sequence the genome of a pathogen rapidly, economically, and with high sensitivity, transforming the fields of diagnostics, surveillance, and pathogenesis.

Here, in this Special Issue, we aim to provide an insight into the genomic/comparative/metagenomic research on antimicrobial-resistant pathogens. Researchers are invited to submit both original research papers and review articles on studies related to the genomics of different antimicrobial-resistant pathogens using the comparative genomics or metagenomics approach. Other papers present results to predict or track antimicrobial resistance based on genome sequences are also welcome.

Dr. Ravi Kant
Dr. Tarja Sironen
Guest Editors

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