Antibacterial Resistance and Novel Therapeutic Strategies
A special issue of Antibiotics (ISSN 2079-6382).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 December 2023) | Viewed by 25747
Special Issue Editors
Interests: Burkholderia cepacia complex; antimicrobials; bacterial virulence; immunoproteomics; immunotherapeutic strategies
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Interests: anti-microbial products; host-pathogen interactions; epigenetics; environmental cues; innate immune memory; aquatic environment; aquaculture
Interests: pathogenesis of tuberculosis (TB); develop novel anti-TB drugs targeting alternate pathways of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
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Interests: antimicrobial resistance; biofilm; microbiology; porcine respiratory disease complex; vaccination
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Bacterial human infectious diseases remains a serious threat to public health worldwide. In addition, the emergence of bacterial resistance to the clinically in-use antimicrobials lowers the efficacy of available prevention and treatment measures, leading to extended hospitalization periods and causing a severe financial burden to healthcare systems worldwide. Therefore, development of novel antibiotics with chemical characteristics distinct from those already available commercially is urgently required. Additionally, to avoid antimicrobial resistance, antibiotics with novel modes of action or interacting targets distinct from those which are clinically in use will be the most interesting to explore.
Another problem associated with antimicrobial resistance is the formation of antibiotic persisters. Therefore, more studies are needed about the molecular pathways involved in the formation and survival of persisters, in order to develop new therapeutic strategies to eliminate them.
In this Special Issue of Antibiotics, we invite authors to submit articles concerning any aspects related to the development of new antibacterial agents and/or their mechanism of action.
Additionally, this Special Issue welcome studies about bacterial resistance to antibiotics and antibiotic persisters.
Dr. Sílvia A. Sousa
Dr. Norouzitallab Parisa
Dr. Ashok Aspatwar
Dr. Sonia Martinez
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- novel antibacterial agents
- antibacterial targets
- mechanisms of antibiotic resistance
- antibiotic persisters
- mechanisms for formation and survival of persisters
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