Membrane Protein to Antibiotic Resistance, Morphological Transition and Bacterial Virulence in Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections
A special issue of Membranes (ISSN 2077-0375). This special issue belongs to the section "Biological Membrane Composition and Structures".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 December 2021) | Viewed by 332
Special Issue Editor
Interests: clinical medicine; discovery of novel antimicrobial drugs and compounds; molecular epidemiology of infectious diseases; pathogenesis of infectious pathogens; microbial applications in agriculture and the environment
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Dear Colleagues,
Infections caused by Gram-positive bacteria such as Listeria monocytogenes, Clostridium difficile, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE), Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB), and Nontuberculous Mycobacteria (NTM) represents a serious threat to public health and the economy. Notably, the incidence of multidrug-resistant pathogenic strains is increasing in many parts of the world. Therefore, the disease has continued to spread. In those infectious diseases, the most important factors affecting the cure rates are bacterial characteristics and host factors. Thus, potential topics include but are not limited to membrane protein contributions to:
1) Antibiotic resistance;
2) Morphological transition;
3) Bacterial virulence;
4) Host immune response.
The main objective of this Special Issue is to provide a platform for the exchange of novel advances in Gram-positive bacteria infectious diseases, which may be helpful in new drug/novel vaccine discovery to limit the spread of disease.
Dr. Yih-Yuan Chen
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Gram-positive bacterial infections
- Antibiotic resistance
- Morphological transitions
- Bacterial virulence
- Host response
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