Silver and Gold Compounds as Antibiotics
A special issue of Antibiotics (ISSN 2079-6382). This special issue belongs to the section "Mechanisms and Structural Biology of Antibiotic Action".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2024) | Viewed by 23353
Special Issue Editors
Interests: crystal structure; structure determination; material characterization; structural chemistry; biological inorganic chemistry, antimicrobial compounds; antiproliferative compounds
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Interests: biological inorganic chemistry; anticancer metallodrugs; antibacterial metallodrugs
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue of MDPI Antibiotics entitled “Silver and Gold Compounds As Antibiotics” will cover a selection of recent research and review articles in the field of biological inorganic chemistry, and especially the antimicrobial activity of silver and gold compounds.
Bacterial infections are a continuous threat to human health and one of the most important challenges in medicine today. The healthcare sector is facing a totally new challenge when it comes to dealing with the design and development of new antibiotics. Silver and gold salts have traditionally been administered to microbial infections. It is, therefore, essential to design new silver or gold compounds able to overcome the bacterial resistance of already known antibiotics. Moreover, promising antibacterial metal compounds such as those of silver or gold aim to resist the development of multidrug resistant bacteria, and this is a research and financial issue of great importance.
This Special Issue on “Silver and Gold Compounds As Antibiotics" aims to provide an overview of this increasingly diverse field, presenting recent developments and the latest research with particular emphasis on the role of silver or gold compounds as antibiotics. Readers of this Special Issue will gain a broader knowledge of antimicrobial metal compounds.
Prof. Dr. Sotiris K Hadjikakou
Dr. Christina N. Banti
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Bio-inorganic chemistry
- Metal compounds
- Antimicrobial drugs
- Antibiotics
- Medical applications
- Antimicrobial resistance