Food- and Waterborne Pathogens: Epidemiology, Genomics, Virulence, and Resistance Profiles, 2nd Edition
A special issue of Microorganisms (ISSN 2076-2607). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Microbiology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025 | Viewed by 205
Special Issue Editors
Interests: enterobacteria; foodborne pathogens; molecular epidemiology; AMR, virulence; molecular microbiology; one health; WGS
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue is a continuation of our previous Special Issue, “Food- and Waterborne Pathogens: Epidemiology, Genomics, Virulence, and Resistance Profiles”.
We are pleased to invite you to submit your original research manuscripts to this new Special Issue.
Food- and waterborne infections cause a major economic burden, having a great impact on food safety and human and animal health worldwide. These infections are widely spread through the consumption of food and/or water contaminated by bacteria or their toxins, parasites, and viruses.
This Special Issue aims to better understand the epidemiology, ecology, genomics, virulence, and transmission mechanisms of resistance markers of some of the most important food- and waterborne pathogens, covering the following topics:
- Food- and waterborne bacterial pathogens (Campylobacter, Salmonella, Yersinia, E. coli, L. monocytogenes, Shigella, Vibrio, S. aureus, and others);
- Food- and waterborne viral pathogens (Hepatitis A, Norovirus, and others);
- Food- and waterborne parasites (gondii, T. spiralis, Criptosporidium, and others);
- Virulence factors and mechanisms of infection;
- Antimicrobial resistance;
- Mobile genetic elements;
- Persistence and biofilms;
- Whole-genome sequencing;
- Public health and epidemiology;
- Trends of microbial pathogens;
- Influence of environmental changes in gene expression;
- Animal health;
- Food safety;
- Water quality;
- The prevention and control of food- and waterborne pathogens.
Dr. Angela Pista
Dr. Rita Batista
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- antimicrobial resistance
- mobile genetic elements
- persistence and biofilms
- whole-genome sequencing
- public health and epidemiology
- trends of microbial pathogens
- influence of environmental changes in gene expression
- animal health
- food safety
- water quality
- prevention and control of food- and waterborne pathogens
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