Microbial Agents and Their Interaction with the Human and Animal Host
A special issue of Microorganisms (ISSN 2076-2607). This special issue belongs to the section "Antimicrobial Agents and Resistance".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 October 2024 | Viewed by 1106
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Antimicrobial resistance poses a serious threat to human and animal health. Antimicrobial resistance is also a serious social and economic problem. The emergence and spread of drug-resistant pathogens, especially of multidrug-resistant bacteria, was facilitated by the misuse and overuse of antimicrobials. Consequently, the possibility of treating infectious diseases with currently used antibiotics is being seriously questioned. Moreover, the number of new antibiotics that have come into therapeutical use has decreased significantly in recent years. Therefore, finding new effective antimicrobials with which to fight antimicrobial resistance is a top priority of the modern scientific world.
This Special Issue will focus on the most recent research in the discovery of new antimicrobial agents and strategies used to treat infectious diseases caused by antimicrobial-resistant pathogens and the relationships between antimicrobial agents and human or animal health. We invite authors to publish their latest original findings in this Special Issue of Microorganisms.
Dr. Andréa Regina De Souza Baptista
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- antimicrobial resistance
- microbial agents
- human and animal host
- infectious disease
Planned Papers
The below list represents only planned manuscripts. Some of these manuscripts have not been received by the Editorial Office yet. Papers submitted to MDPI journals are subject to peer-review.
Title: Molecular characteristics of colistin resistance in Acinetobacter baumannii and activity of antimicrobial combination therapy in a tertiary care medical center in Lebanon
Author: Matar
Highlights: Infections with pan-drug-resistant (PDR) bacteria such as A. baumannii are becoming increasingly common especially in healthcare facilities. In this study, we selected 15 colistin-resistant clinical A. baumannii isolates from a hospital in Beirut, Lebanon to test combination therapies, determine their sequence types (STs) and the mechanism of colistin resistance using whole-genome sequencing (WGS)
