Antimicrobial Resistance among Anaerobic Bacteria
A special issue of Microorganisms (ISSN 2076-2607). This special issue belongs to the section "Antimicrobial Agents and Resistance".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2023) | Viewed by 2728
Special Issue Editors
Interests: anaerobic bacteria; Bacteroides spp.; herpesviruses; antiviral drugs; human respiratory infections; sexually transmitted infection; influenza; antibiotic resistance
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Anaerobic bacteria are an integral component of the human microbiome. Many of these microorganisms are opportunistic pathogens responsible for endogenous infections, and can be isolated from a variety of clinical specimens. However, some species are absolutely pathogenic. Anaerobic bacteria are also isolated from the environment, e.g., hospital wastewater and sewage from wastewater treatment plants. In recent years, it has been shown that anaerobes are closely correlated with oral cancer and colorectal cancer. Another clinically and environmentally unfavorable feature is the ability of anaerobes to form biofilm. Antibiotic resistance of anaerobic bacteria is a growing public health concern worldwide. The currently unified standards in the assessment of bacterial susceptibility to antibiotics make it possible to compare the results of antibiogram tests of various centers around the world. This makes it possible to understand the scale of the problem, study the mechanisms of resistance, and monitor the sensitivity profiles of strains isolated from humans, animals and the environment, which may be sources of human resistance genes. So, it is logical to take a One Health approach when addressing antimicrobial resistance in relation to anaerobic bacteria.
In light of this, for this Special Issue, we invite you to contribute original research and review papers describing areas such as:
- The evolution of antibiotic resistance in anaerobes;
- The analysis of anaerobe isolates for antibiotic resistance levels;
- The antibiotic susceptibility profiles of anaerobic pathogens;
- The identification of antimicrobial resistance genes.
Dr. Anna Majewska
Prof. Dr. Hanna Pituch
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- anaerobes
- anaerobic bacteria
- antibiotics
- antibiotic susceptibility testing
- beta-lactam antibiotics
- clinical isolates
- metronidazole
- nim genes
- One Health
- PCR
- resistance genes
- resistance mechanisms
- sequencing
