Antibiotic Resistance of Aeromonas: A One Health Perspective

Dear Colleagues,

We invite you to submit an article to a Special Issue of the journal Microorganisms focused on ‘Antibiotic Resistance of Aeromonads: A One Health Perspective’. We are reaching out to you as an expert in this field to help us provide a comprehensive analysis of this critical topic. As you are aware, antibiotic resistance continues to be a leading global health problem, threatening the successful treatment of common microbial infections and placing a heavy economic burden on society. The One Health component acknowledges the interconnection between humans, animals, and the environment and their effect on the emergence, spread, and evolution of antimicrobial resistance. This can occur through mobile genetic elements that bridge the non-clinical and clinical environments conferring the transfer of resistance genes. Aeromonads are a group of Gram-negative, facultative anaerobic, oxidase-positive, glucose-fermenting bacilli that thrive in a variety of ecosystems. 

Importantly, aeromonads can bridge these clinical and non-clinical environments thriving in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems where they can colonize and be pathogenic to warm- and cold-blooded species. Thus, aeromonads can be used as an indicator species to monitor antibiotic resistance. Additionally, resistance within this genus serves as a public health risk where it provides increased difficulties in treatment of disease, as well as acting as a reservoir of antimicrobial resistance genes capable of horizontal gene transfer to other pathogenic species. 

This Special Issue will enhance understanding of antimicrobial resistance from a One Health perspective among aeromonads. We welcome submissions of original research articles or comprehensive reviews concerning antimicrobial resistance among aeromonads within any natural environment or source causing an environmental impact, including but not limited to anthropogenic activity, agriculture, and aquaculture.

Dr. Troy Skwor
Guest Editor

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• Antimicrobial resistance 
• Human 
• Wastewater 
• Aeromonas 
• Aquatic ecosystem 
• Agriculture 
• Aquaculture 
• Food