Environmental Pathogens and Antimicrobial Resistance: Genomic and Metagenomic Insights
A special issue of Microorganisms (ISSN 2076-2607). This special issue belongs to the section "Microbiomes".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2026 | Viewed by 506
Editors
Interests: bioaerosols; microalgae; environmental health; renewable energy
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Interests: antibiotic resistant bacteria; superbug; transferable antimicrobial resistance; bioaerosols
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Environmental compartments—including water bodies, community environments, hospitals and livestock production systems—are increasingly recognized as important reservoirs and transmission hubs for pathogenic microorganisms and antimicrobial resistance. Within the One Health framework, environmental microbiomes connect human, animal and ecological systems, facilitating the circulation of pathogens and resistance determinants across multiple interfaces.
Recent advances in genomics and metagenomics have greatly improved our ability to characterize environmental pathogens, resistomes and mobilomes. Mobile genetic elements, such as plasmids, integrons, transposons and genomic islands, play a central role in the horizontal transfer of antimicrobial resistance genes, enabling their rapid dissemination among diverse bacterial populations.
Deciphering the genomic diversity, evolutionary dynamics and transmission pathways of environmental pathogens is essential for understanding how antimicrobial resistance emerges and spreads across ecosystems. Integrating genomic and metagenomic approaches provides critical insights for environmental surveillance, risk assessment and the development of strategies to mitigate the spread of antimicrobial resistance.
This Special Issue aims to advance research on environmental pathogens and antimicrobial resistance from a genomic, ecological and One Health perspective, with the goal of improving disease prevention and protecting global public health.
Dr. Changliang Nie
Prof. Dr. Mingyu Wang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- antimicrobial resistance
- antibiotic resistance genes
- genomics
- metagenomics
- horizontal gene transfer
- resistome and mobilome
- environmental pathogens
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