Exploring the Antimicrobial Resistance Phenomenon in Wildlife: The Need for a Holistic Perspective for Global Health
A special issue of Animals (ISSN 2076-2615). This special issue belongs to the section "Wildlife".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2024) | Viewed by 9799
Special Issue Editors
Interests: microbiome studies and antimicrobial resistance; wildlife; wild birds; poultry; infectious diseases; zoonoses and public health; epidemiology; microbiology; molecular biology; metagenomics
Interests: sea turtles; wildlife; sentinel species; antibiotic resistance; infectious diseases; zoonoses; one health
Interests: veterinary medicine; microbiome studies; zoonotic diseases; infectious disease epidemiology
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Dear Colleagues,
The spread of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in wild animals is an alarming situation with public health, ecological, and economic consequences, therefore raising the need for surveillance programs on resistance mechanisms in the environment, including wildlife. This phenomenon, resulting from the antibiotic overuse in animal productions, human and veterinary medicine, can affect wild animals even without therapeutic antibiotic exposure.
In natural settings, bacteria harboring antimicrobial-resistant genes are part of a complex interplay involving different communities. The sub-inhibitory concentrations of antibiotics released in the environment can disrupt the balance among microbial populations, both on ecological and evolutionary levels. Wildlife constitutes a unique population for exploring the relationship between the microbiome, health, and disease. Anthropogenic disturbances can cause shifts in the wildlife gut microbiome and disrupt its natural homeostasis, thus making animals more susceptible to infectious diseases, including potential zoonoses.
The objective of this Special Issue is to investigate and quantify the scale of the AMR phenomenon and the related microbiota response, from a wider and holistic perspective, in several species of wild animals. We invite contributions from researchers working in different areas of veterinary sciences, microbiology, infectious diseases, and genetics, encouraging advanced molecular techniques and sequence analysis (e.g., RT-qPCR, shotgun metagenomics), essential to deepen knowledge on AMR dynamics in wildlife microbial communities.
Dr. Lorena Varriale
Dr. Antonino Pace
Dr. Luca Borrelli
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- antimicrobial resistance
- antimicrobial-resistant genes
- antimicrobial-resistant bacteria
- wildlife
- human–wildlife interface
- microbiota community
- metagenomics
- qPCR
- resistome
- next-generation sequencing (NGS)
- multidrug resistance
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