Novel Sequencing Technologies for the Characterization of Multidrug-Resistant Bacteria
A special issue of Microorganisms (ISSN 2076-2607). This special issue belongs to the section "Antimicrobial Agents and Resistance".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025 | Viewed by 2
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Interests: antimicrobial resistance; resistance mechanisms; carbapenemase; mobile genetic elements (MGEs); whole-genome sequencing (WGS)
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Dear Colleagues,
Multidrug-resistant (MDR) bacteria have spread all over the world. These bacteria show resistance against multiple antibiotic groups, limiting therapeutic options. The absence of effective treatment leads, by default, to increased hospitalization periods and elevated morbidity and mortality rates. The emergence of antibiotic-resistant microorganisms has challenged and changed microbiology laboratories. Microbiology laboratories should contribute to the rapid determination of susceptibility to antimicrobials, including the detection of resistance mechanisms, which is important for the successful treatment of infectious diseases in individual patients and for the prevention of nosocomial acquisition and the further transmission of MDR bacteria as well. MDR bacteria should also be deeply typed to understand their evolution and spread as an integral part of active surveillance. However, the last two decades have also revolutionized microbiological laboratories by the introduction of novel technologies (i.e., Next−Generation Sequencing).
Due to the amount of data generated, NGS technologies have been increasingly used, in the last decade, in epidemiological studies. These data can better explain taxonomy, antimicrobial resistance phenotype, virulence patterns, clone, the route of transmission (in a lot of cases), and, most importantly, the possibility of comparing results with data from all over the world. The knowledge involved helps in designing policies, devising strategies, and implementing preventive measures. Thus, epidemiological studies of MDR pathogens are crucial in fighting antimicrobial resistance.
Dr. Costas C. Papagiannitsis
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- antimicrobial resistance (AMR) genomics
- next-generation sequencing (NGS)
- mobile genetic elements (plasmids/transposons)
- resistome profiling
- one health surveillance
- metagenomic AMR detection
- long-read sequencing (e.g., Nanopore/PacBio)
- bioinformatic pipelines for AMR
- nosocomial pathogen transmission
- precision antimicrobial stewardship
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