Advances in Microbiology of Eye Infections
A special issue of Microorganisms (ISSN 2076-2607). This special issue belongs to the section "Medical Microbiology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2026 | Viewed by 19
Special Issue Editor
Interests: association between microorganisms and diseases of the ocular surface, including ocular and microbiome analysis in the development of ocular pathologies; protein biomarkers in ocular diseases
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Despite advances in the medical field, four out of the ten leading causes of death worldwide are due to infectious diseases. Ocular infections are one of the most common diseases, and include keratitis, conjunctivitis, blepharitis, endophthalmitis, and cornea ulcer. These infections can be caused by etiological agents such as bacteria, fungi, virus, and parasites, or the combination of more than one infectious agent.
Infectious microorganisms can establish physical associations that depend on various molecular mechanisms for their development and functioning. These molecular mechanisms confer adaptability to the environment in which they develop, and interact with, and are important to the expression of, virulence factors and resistance to treatment.
Microorganisms interact in the human body and form an ecological niche, and variations in microbiological communities occur over time. Interactions can be antagonistic, mutualistic, or synergistic, thus directly affecting microbial growth, and interactions between prokaryotes and eukaryotes are specifically abundant in nature.
Submissions should provide detailed, in-depth knowledge about infectious agents of choice, their pathogenicity mechanisms, the development of treatment strategies in order to understand the infectious agents, and the diseases where they are involved, as well as their virulence mechanisms, interactions with microorganisms, and translational analysis in ocular infections.
In this Special Issue, we consider mini-reviews, as well as original research and review articles.
Dr. Victor Manuel Bautista-de-Lucío
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- ocular infections
- microorganisms interaction
- pathogenicity mechanisms
- virulence factors
- antibiotic resistance
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