Research on Relevant Clinical Infections: 2nd Edition
A special issue of Microorganisms (ISSN 2076-2607). This special issue belongs to the section "Medical Microbiology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2025 | Viewed by 1364
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue is a continuation of our 2024 Special Issue “Research on Relevant Clinical Infections”.
Microbial infections have emerged to cause diseases that can be devastating and sometimes fatal to the host. The four main groups of causative pathogens are viruses, bacteria, fungi, and parasites. Polymicrobial infections caused by combinations of pathogens are a special case and are becoming more popular. In particular, polymicrobial infections in immunocompromised or very elderly populations continue to pose a serious health threat. However, many infectious diseases are caused by bacterial infections which caused very high mortality rates before antibiotics were discovered. Nowadays, the rapid global spread of pathogens that have acquired new antimicrobial resistance mechanisms is a major global health threat, causing difficult-to-treat infections and are therefore of particular interest to researchers in the clinical setting. Besides tremendous infection-induced mortality rates, especially in children, these diseases often cause severe economic burdens due to prolonged hospital stays, hygiene measurements, and sequels. As a result, there is a significant need to study clinical microbial infections and discover novel tools for their diagnosis and treatment.
This Special Issue aims to present resent findings on various aspect of relevant clinical microbial infections. The main focus points include:
- Epidemiology and clinical features of microbial infections;
- Infections in special populations / nosocomial infections;
- Molecular insights into the pathomechanisms of specific infections;
- Challenges and advances in the treatment of microbial infections;
- Antimicrobial resistance mechanisms in microbial infections.
Reviews (metanalysis), original research papers, and communications are welcome.
We look forward to your contributions.
Dr. Ludwig Knabl
Prof. Dr. Johannes Haybaeck
Dr. Silke Huber
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- infectious disease
- microbial infections
- clinical relevance
- rapid diagnosis
- advanced therapy
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