Microbial Pathogens’ Resistance Mechanisms and Application of Novel Antimicrobial Agents
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Applied Microbiology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025 | Viewed by 60
Special Issue Editors
Interests: antimicrobial resistance; biochemistry and microbiology; rhinovirus; Staphylococcus aureus; immunology; microbiology; cell biology
Interests: lactic acid bacteria; silage microbiology; yeast biotechnology; circular economy, waste management
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Dear Colleagues,
An understanding of how different microbial pathogens resist our immune defences and how they become resistant to current therapies is crucial. This is especially pertinent in light of the rise of multi-drug and extremely drug-resistant strains of different microbes.
Given the rise in resistant microbes over recent years, interest has been stimulated in repurposing immune responses to counteract these microbes and in the development of novel antimicrobial agents. In this respect, understanding how microbial pathogens avoid our immune defences and how they resist current treatments could help identify new therapeutic targets that could be taken forwards clinically. Additionally, understanding the mechanisms of action of new therapies could help identify potential protein targets that may, in the future, render pathogens more sensitive to current therapies.
In this context, the current Special Issue welcomes the submission of scientific research on how different microbial pathogens avoid innate and adaptive immune responses; how they become resistant to various therapies (in vitro, in vivo and clinical work); in vitro, in vivo or clinical studies of the mechanisms of action of novel natural or synthetic antimicrobials; repurposing current therapies as novel mechanisms to overcome microbial resistance; and synergistic studies of different compounds and their modes of action.
Dr. Jamil Jubrail
Dr. Agata Urszula Fabiszewska
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- antimicrobial resistance
- innate immunity
- adaptive immunity
- antimicrobial agents
- natural compounds
- synthetic compounds
- antimicrobial peptides
- protein targets
- gene targets
- bacteria
- viruses
- fungi
- parasites
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