Antimicrobial Resistance and Environmental Health
A special issue of Antibiotics (ISSN 2079-6382). This special issue belongs to the section "Mechanism and Evolution of Antibiotic Resistance".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2023) | Viewed by 38639
Special Issue Editor
Interests: applied microbiology; environmental microbiology; molecular microbiology; antibiotic resistance; environmental pollution; environmental monitoring; water quality
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The growing threat posed by antimicrobial resistance to human, animal, and environmental health is among the biggest challenges humanity faces in this century. Without appropriate mitigation measures, guided by extensive research in this regard, the situation is anticipated to aggravate, claiming millions of lives and alarmingly impacting the global economy. Thus, it has been suggested that addressing this challenge requires a One Health approach that considers the human, animal, and environmental sectors. However, while considerable research has focused on the human and animal sectors, the environmental sector has been neglected, and where this sector has been addressed, it has been limited to water (mostly) and soil. Furthermore, the atmospheric resistome is still to be considered, despite the undisputed role of air in transmitting human infections. Finally, studies linking the environmental resistome to human health are limited, as many environmental studies focus on monitoring.
Therefore, this Special Issue aims at providing a comprehensive update on antimicrobial resistance and environmental health. Manuscripts reporting on the environment (water, air and soil) as a critical reservoir and significant transmission route of clinically important antibiotic-resistant bacteria and their associated resistance genes will be considered. These would include but are not limited to studies using culture-based, culture-independent approaches, including genomics (whole genome sequencing and metagenomics), identification methods, and concepts suggesting methods of studying AMR and its link to environmental health.
Dr. Akebe Luther King Abia
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- public health
- environmental health
- antibiotic resistance
- environmental resistome
- antibiotic-resistant bacteria
- whole-genome sequencing
- metagenomics
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