New Insights into Bacterial Pathogenesis

Dear Colleagues,

Bacterial infections can be more or less serious and the severity of an infection depends mainly on the type of bacterium involved. Through the activation of different strategies, pathogenic bacteria are able to adhere, enter, survive, and proliferate inside host cells. If the immune defenses are not activated in time to control the infection or if an effective antibiotic treatment is not given in time, pathogenic bacteria may cross the host’s tissue barriers, gain access to internal tissues of different parts of the body, and cause severe illness.

This Topical Collection aims to provide new insights into the link between virulence, immune escape strategies, and antibiotic resistance that different microbes adopt in the context of bacterial pathogenesis. Bacterial pathogenicity is a complex and multifactorial process and the relationship between antimicrobial resistance and virulence, which often determines the ability of bacteria to cause disease, is incompletely understood. In light of this, a fundamental objective of this Topical Collection will be to gain a better understanding of the relationship between virulence and resistance that allows pathogenic bacteria to colonize and invade human tissues. This Topical Collection welcomes high-quality contributions (original research papers and reviews) that shed light on the relationship between virulence and resistance in pathogenic bacteria.

Dr. Carmelo Biondo
Collection Editor

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