Recent Advances in Prevention and Treatment of Infectious Diseases
A special issue of Pharmaceutics (ISSN 1999-4923). This special issue belongs to the section "Drug Targeting and Design".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2023) | Viewed by 25609
Special Issue Editors
Interests: biofilms; antimicrobial agents; protozoa; fungi; Candida; pathogenicity; drug resistance; combination therapy; mechanism of action; cytotoxicity; in vitro treatments; drug synergism
Interests: fungi; Candida; protozoa; Acanthamoeba; Toxoplasma; pathogenicity; microbicidal agents; biofilms; drug resistance; combination therapy; in vitro susceptibility testing; cytotoxicity; Fractional Inhibitory Concentration (FIC) index; drug synergism
Interests: fungi; Candida; antifungal agents; biofilms; drug resistance; combination therapy; in vitro susceptibility testing; cytotoxicity; Fractional Inhibitory Concentration (FIC) index; drug synergism
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Diseases caused by eukaryotic and prokaryotic microorganisms have a high prevalence and a worldwide distribution, causing millions of deaths every year. However, the antimicrobial agents of choice against some of these infections are limited (e.g., bacteriemia, malaria, candidiasis, leishmaniasis, toxoplasmosis, biofilm-related infections, amebiasis, keratitis, and bloodstream infections). In addition, the majority of therapeutic treatments are associated with microorganism resistance, severe side effects due to toxicity, or limited activity against the causative agent of the disease.
This Special Issue aims to assemble original research and review articles related to strategies to address the problems associated with these widely distributed infections; new advances in the development of effective strategies to control and treat microbial infections, including new therapeutic treatments, new targets and new diagnosis systems; mechanisms of action; new delivery systems or combined therapy to enhance election treatment efficacy; new formulations to improve tolerability, among others.
Dr. Irene Heredero-Bermejo
Prof. Dr. José Luis Copa Patiño
Dr. Natalia Gómez Casanova
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- infectious diseases
- opportunistic infections
- novel treatment
- diagnosis systems
- delivery systems
- resistance
- tolerability
- antibacterial
- biofilm-related infections
- bacteria
- antiparasitic
- protozoa
- fungi
- malaria
- leishmaniasis
- toxoplasmosis
- keratitis
- candidiasis
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