Global Status of Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) in One Health Framework
A special issue of Microbiology Research (ISSN 2036-7481).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025
Special Issue Editor
Interests: AMR; AMR modulation; zoonosis; veterinary microbiology
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Special Issue Information
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and particularly resistance to antibiotics (ABR) has become one of the most complex public health challenges globally. Estimates have suggested that by 2050 AMR will be responsible for 10 million deaths, of which 4.73 million are in Asia, with an associated reduction of 2% to 3.5% in Gross Domestic Product (GDP) that will cost the world up to 100 trillion USD. Largest consumption of antibiotics in the world, with widespread and often inessential use in both humans and livestock. Widespread consumption leads to antibiotic residues in water and soil that may exacerbate the development and transmission of resistance through organisms and chemicals in the environment. The World Health Organization (WHO) also declared AMR as one of the biggest threats to global health, development, and food security. Looking into the present scenario, the World Health Organization (WHO) has built a worldwide strategy to address the rising issue of AMR known as the "One Health" approach, which is based on finding the intimate connection between animal, human, and environment interface.
This Special Issue will focus on all pathogens with antimicrobial resistance in One Health framework and provide valuable insights into epidemiology, microbial genomics, bioinformatics analysis, next-generation sequencing technologies, AMR dissemination drivers, mechanisms of transfer of resistance genes, possible inhibitory AMR mechanisms, and many more aspects of AMR. As the Guest Editors of this Special Issue, I am pleased to invite you to submit original research articles, review articles, and short communications.
Dr. Muhammad Shoaib
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- antimicrobial resistance
- epidemiology
- microbial genomics
- bioinformatics analysis
- next-generation sequencing technologies
- transfer of resistance genes
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