Insights into Antibiotics in Human, Animal, and Agriculture: Resistance, Determinant, and Treatment

Dear Colleagues,

The overuse and inappropriate use of antibiotics in medicine, agriculture, fishery, and food animal production is an under-appreciated problem. This problem is considered to have potential public health implications. The agricultural, food animal, and aquatic environments have been regarded as vital reservoirs and sources of antibiotic residues, antibiotic-resistant bacteria, and resistance genes. Antibiotic residues have been reported to have a negative impact on public health and food safety with regard to drug toxicity, immunopathological diseases, carcinogenicity, allergic reactions, etc., whereas antibiotic resistant bacteria lead to treatment failure in human and animal, increasing the number of infections worldwide, and spreading throughout the globe.

This Special Issue focuses on antibiotic-resistant bacteria including antimicrobial-resistant genes, genetic or genomic insights, epidemiology, and their characteristics, from medicine, agriculture, fishery, and food animal products. It includes applications and consequences of antibiotics, related bioactive agents, or natural compounds to treat bacterial infection/contamination in medicine, agriculture, fishery, and food animal production, as well as new methods for assaying antibiotic-resistant bacteria or antibiotic residues in medicine, agriculture, or the environment. Qualitative and quantitative studies exploring the determinants of antimicrobial use in agriculture, fishery, and food animal production are also accepted. Original research, reviews, perspectives, or commentary opinions are welcome.

Dr. Anusak Kerdsin
Dr. Jinquan Li
Dr. Jonathan Frye
Guest Editors

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