Infections in Intensive Care Units
A special issue of Microorganisms (ISSN 2076-2607). This special issue belongs to the section "Medical Microbiology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2021) | Viewed by 17789
Special Issue Editors
Interests: Critical Care; COVID-19; Infectious Diseases; Antibiotic and Antimykotic Therapies; Tropical Medicine; Therapeutic Drug Monitoring in ICU patients
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Special Issue Information
Infections are relevant for all critically ill patients in the ICU. Some of the patients are treated in the ICU because of severe infection, and the others are exposed to a significantly increased risk of infection due to their treatment. The reasons for this are manifold, for example, immunosuppressive therapies (medicinal or, e.g., in the context of dialysis/plasmapheresis), postoperative complications, or device-related infections.
In this issue of Microorganisms we would like to focus on infections and their pathogens in critically ill patients in the ICU. These may be pathogen-specific factors that promote infection in the ICU setting (biofilm formation on catheter materials), aspects of the management of specific infections (e.g., ventriculitis in neurosurgical patients or difficult-to-treat pathogens in burn patients), or interventions to reduce/treat infections. Submissions on the abovementioned issues are especially encouraged.
Keywords
- intensive care
- therapeutic drug monitoring
- difficult-to-treat infections
- multi-resistant pathogens