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Probiotics: The Current State of Scientific Knowledge

edited by

Jacek Piatek

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | 10 articles | Viewed by 44715 | Submission Open

Keywords: microbiota modification; microbiological techniques for identifying microorganisms; probiotics in therapy; probiotics and antibiotic resistance

(This special issue belongs to the Section Gut Microbiota)

Gut Microbiome in Homeostasis and Disease, 2nd Edition

edited by

Michael Doulberis

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | 11 articles | Viewed by 19736 | Submission Open

(This special issue belongs to the Section Gut Microbiota)

Gut Microbiota, Diet, and Gastrointestinal Cancer

edited by

Marco Cintoni

and Flavio De Maio

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 18814 | Submission Open

Keywords: gut microbiota; diet; nutrition; gastrointestinal cancer; colorectal cancer; probiotics; prebiotics; postbiotics; radiotherapy; chemotherapy

(This special issue belongs to the Section Gut Microbiota)

Recent Advances on Microbial Interactions with Materials and Their Applications

edited by

Ruiyong Zhang

Hongwei Liu

and Fang Guan

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 18728 | Submission Open

Keywords: microbiologically influenced corrosion; biofouling; biomineralization and bioleaching; elements cycle; microbial degradation.

(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Microbiology)

Bacteremia and Sepsis

edited by

Miquel Pujol

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 14801 | Submission Open

Keywords: bacteremia; sepsis; bloodstream infection; virulence factors; clinical microbiology; surveillance

(This special issue belongs to the Section Medical Microbiology)

Host Versus Pathogen: Candida Infections, Immune Response and Therapy Perspectives

edited by

Eva Pericolini

and Elena Roselletti

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 12631 | Submission Open

Keywords: Candida spp.; candidiasis; mucosal infection; invasive infection; innate immune response; adaptive immune response; drug resistance; anti-Candida therapies

(This special issue belongs to the Section Molecular Microbiology and Immunology)

Advances in Host-Gut Microbiota

edited by

Jean-Paul Motta

and Marion Garofalo

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 11323 | Submission Open

Keywords: host– microbiota interactions; infectious and inflammatory gut disorders; microbiota ageing; intestinal epithelium

(This special issue belongs to the Section Gut Microbiota)

Shiga-Toxin Producing Escherichia coli and the Animal Host

edited by

Indira Kudva

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 10567 | Submission Open

Keywords: E. coli; STEC; animal-host; interaction; colonization; pathogenicity; diagnosis; prevention; therapy; alternatives

(This special issue belongs to the Section Medical Microbiology)

Interactions between Parasites/Pathogens and Vectors

edited by

Günter A. Schaub

and Norman Ratcliffe

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 10089 | Submission Open

(This special issue belongs to the Section Public Health Microbiology)

Beneficial Microbes and Gastrointestinal Microbiota, 2nd Edition

edited by

Harsharn Gill

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 9730 | Submission Open

Keywords: probiotics; gut microbiome; gastrointestinal health; intestinal dysbiosis; enteric diseases; pro-commensal strategy; bacterial consortium.

(This special issue belongs to the Section Gut Microbiota)

Advanced Research on Microbial Biofilms—a Themed Issue in Honor of Professor Gianfranco Donelli

edited by Jeffrey B. Kaplan, Steven L. Percival and

Lorenzo Drago

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 7907 | Submission Open

Keywords: microbial biofilms; antibiofilm; biofilm development; evolution of biofilms

(This special issue belongs to the Section Biofilm)

Advances in Research on Cyanobacteria

edited by

Nada Tokodi

, Nevena Đorđević and Dijana Lalić

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 7780 | Submission Open

Keywords: cyanobacteria; harmful algal blooms; cyanotoxins; secondary metabolites; cyanobacterial diversity and ecology; biotechnological use; biological loess crusts; health risk; environmental sustainability; cyanobacterial omics

(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Microbiology)

Molecular Ecology of Microalgae and Cyanobacteria

edited by

Burkhard Becker

, Karin Glaser and Ekaterina Pushkareva

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 7479 | Submission Open

Keywords: microalgae; cyanobacteria; molecular omics

(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Microbiology)

Fungal Biology and Interactions, 2nd Edition

edited by

Renato Graciano de Paula

and Roberto Nascimento Silva

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 7299 | Submission Open

(This special issue belongs to the Section Molecular Microbiology and Immunology)

Microbial Nitrogen Cycle

edited by

Volker Brozel

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 7139 | Submission Open

Keywords: microbial nitrogen cycle; nitrogen fixation; nitrification; denitrification; ammonification

(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Microbiology)

Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases in Animals, 2nd Edition

edited by

Ángeles Sonia Olmeda

and

Félix Valcárcel

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 6669 | Submission Open

Keywords: tick ecology; identification; tick-borne pathogen; vectorial role and capacity; laboratory and field control; new acaricides

(This special issue belongs to the Section Veterinary Microbiology)

Gut Microbiota in Health and Diseases: The Role of Pro-/Pre-/Syn-/Post-Biotics in the Gut–Liver–Brain Axis

edited by Mohamad Khalil and

Piero Portincasa

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 5827 | Submission Open

Keywords: gut microbiome; gut– liver– brain axis; gastrointestinal tract; digestion; metabolism; immune function

(This special issue belongs to the Section Gut Microbiota)

Probiotic Bacteria in Fermented Foods

edited by

Tomas García-Cayuela

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5117 | Submission Open

Keywords: probiotic fermented food; health benefit; probiotic functionality; functional foods; indigenous fermentation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Food Microbiology)

Interactions of Mycorrhizal Fungi and Other Soil Microorganisms with Plants

edited by

Xingjia Xiang

, Ruibo Sun and Jia Liu

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 4979 | Submission Open

Keywords: soil microbial community; plant; interaction; symbiotic relationship; soil pathogen

(This special issue belongs to the Section Plant Microbe Interactions)

Molecular Techniques, Novel Biomarkers and Coagulation-Based Methods in the Diagnosis of Periprosthetic Joint Infections

edited by

Andreas G. Tsantes

Dimitrios V. Papadopoulos

Christos Koutserimpas

and

Georgia Vrioni

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4936 | Submission Open

Keywords: periprosthetic joint infections; diagnosis; molecular techniques; novel biomarkers; causative organism

(This special issue belongs to the Section Medical Microbiology)

Research on Diseases of Aquatic Organisms

edited by Geovana Dotta,

Guilherme Tavares

and

Fabiana Pilarski

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 4877 | Submission Open

Keywords: conservation and welfare of aquatic animals; ecotoxicology of aquatic environments; amphibian health and diseases; crustacean health and diseases; fish health and diseases; health and diseases of bivalve mollusks; health and diseases of other aquatic animals

(This special issue belongs to the Section Veterinary Microbiology)

Advances in Brucella

edited by

Angel Oñate

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 4699 | Submission Open

(This special issue belongs to the Section Medical Microbiology)

Advances in Veterinary Microbiology

edited by

Simone Peletto

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4132 | Submission Open

Keywords: African Swine Fever Virus; Bluetongue Virus; Arboviruses; Microbiota; Metagenomics; Brucellosis

(This special issue belongs to the Section Veterinary Microbiology)

Research on Mycorrhizal Fungi

edited by

Rui S. Oliveira

, Marieta Hristozkova and

Mohamed Idbella

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 3980 | Submission Open

Keywords: mycorrhizal fungi; mycorrhizal symbiosis; plant– microbe interaction; plant nutrition; crop production

(This special issue belongs to the Section Plant Microbe Interactions)

Eukaryotic Microbial Sex: A Path to a Unified Understanding of Seven Major Supergroups

edited by

Nobuyuki Haga

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3766 | Submission Open

Keywords: mating type determination; mating-type inheritance; mating type substances and genes; mating pheromones; genomic DNA rearrangement; meiosis and gamete genesis

(This special issue belongs to the Section Molecular Microbiology and Immunology)

Research on Antimicrobial Activity of Natural Products, Second Edition

edited by

Rosário Martins

Maria De Fátima Carvalho

and

Mónica Vieira

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3704 | Submission Open

Keywords: antimicrobial activity; bacteria; cyanobacteria; fungi; antibiotic resistance; natural compounds

(This special issue belongs to the Section Antimicrobial Agents and Resistance)

Advances in Research on Waterborne Pathogens

edited by Ashwini S. Kucknoor

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3683 | Submission Open

Keywords: waterborne pathogens; pathogen detection; antimicrobial resistance; public health

(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Microbiology)

Microorganisms in Silage

edited by

Musen Wang

Marcia De Oliveira Franco

Qing Zhang

Siran Wang

and

Chunsheng Bai

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3671 | Submission Open

Keywords: ensiling; microbial community; microbial contamination; functional lactic acid bacteria; fermented feed

(This special issue belongs to the Section Food Microbiology)

Phenotyping the Athletic Gut Microbiota: The Basis of Health and Physical Performance?

edited by Jesús Álvarez-Herms

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 3445 | Submission Open

Keywords: physiology; gut microbiota; exercise; hypoxia; nutrition; hyperthermia

(This special issue belongs to the Section Gut Microbiota)

Soil Fungi in Sustainable Agriculture, 2nd Edition

edited by

Nikolay Vassilev

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2869 | Submission Open

Keywords: plant beneficial microorganisms; plant– fungi interactions; biofertilizers; inoculants; biocontrol agents

(This special issue belongs to the Section Plant Microbe Interactions)

Pathogens in Aquaculture Environments

edited by Eduardo Quiroz-Gúzman

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2766 | Submission Open

Keywords: bacterial pathogens; bacterial pathogen database; aquaculture; disease; bacterial fish pathogens; bacterial shrimp pathogens; bacterial adhesion; bacterial colonization; virulence factor; pathogen– host interaction

(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Microbiology)

Current Developments in Urogenital Infections

edited by

Charalambos Gogos

and

Karolina Akinosoglou

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2761 | Submission Open

Keywords: urinary tract infection; genital tract infection; sexually transmitted disease

(This special issue belongs to the Section Medical Microbiology)

Fungal Metabolites: Powering Pharmacological and Agricultural Frontiers

edited by

Maja Karaman

and

Ewa Zapora

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2706 | Submission Open

Keywords: fungi; fungal metabolites; polysaccharides; pharmacological applications; agricultural innovations; crop productivity; stress tolerance

(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Microbiology)

Microorganisms from Terrestrial Extreme Environments: Exploration and Exploitation Towards Sustainable Plant Production

edited by Pablo Cornejo,

Cledir Santos

and Catalina Vidal

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2685 | Submission Open

Keywords: global climate change; hyper-arid environments; salinity; drought; polluted soils; plant-growth-promoting microorganisms

(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Microbiology)

The Molecular Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases

edited by Jonathan Hon-kwan Chen

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2519 | Submission Open

Keywords: molecular epidemiology; infectious diseases; outbreak investigations; transmission; genotyping; disease control

(This special issue belongs to the Section Public Health Microbiology)

Latest Research on Clostridioides difficile

edited by

George Broukhanski

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2449 | Submission Open

Keywords: Clostridioides difficile; biology; epidemiology; pathogenicity; detection; treatment; infection control

(This special issue belongs to the Section Medical Microbiology)

Microbial Applications for Sustainable Resource and Energy Recovery

edited by Yuriy Litti

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2111 | Submission Open

Keywords: anaerobic digestion; dark fermentation; biogas; biorefinery; microbial community; metabolic engineering; biochemicals; chain elongation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Microbiology)

Prevention and Treatment of Healthcare-Associated Infections

edited by José-Artur Paiva

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1447 | Submission Open

Keywords: risk analysis and triage; epidemiological surveillance; bundle-approach and behavior interventions; fast microbiological diagnosis; clostridioides difficille; carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales; multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas; methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus; candida auris; best use of new antibiotics

(This special issue belongs to the Section Medical Microbiology)

Microbial Solutions for a Sustainable Alcoholic Beverages Supply Chain

edited by

Wilson Jose Fernandes Lemos Junior

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1316 | Submission Open

Keywords: wine; beer; spirits; alcoholic beverages; sustainable food chain; microbial solutions

(This special issue belongs to the Section Microbial Biotechnology)

The Role of Lactic Acid Bacteria and Their Metabolites in Fermented Foods: From Mechanisms of Action to Technological Applications and Human Health Effects

edited by

Małgorzata Ziarno

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1300 | Submission Open

Keywords: LAB; fermentation; fermented foods; metabolites; health benefits

(This special issue belongs to the Section Food Microbiology)

Advances in Microbial Cell Factories, 3rd Edition

edited by

Thomas Brück

and

Dania Awad

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 1224 | Submission Open

Keywords: sustainability; biotechnology; bioengineering; biocatalysis; fermentation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Microbial Biotechnology)

Microbial Food Webs

edited by Wuchang Zhang

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1199 | Submission Open

Keywords: microbial food web; ciliates; flagellates; prokaryote; taxonomy; ecology; global change

(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Microbiology)

Intestinal Dysbiosis: 2nd Edition

edited by

Giuseppe Merra

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1174 | Submission Open

Keywords: gut flora; intestinal flora; dysbiosis; inflammatory bowel diseases; leaky gut

(This special issue belongs to the Section Gut Microbiota)

Earth Systems: Shaped by Microbial Life

edited by

Panagiota Stathopoulou

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1092 | Submission Open

Keywords: microbial diversity; extreme habitats; novel microorganisms; bioprospecting; anthropogenic impact; dark matter

(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Microbiology)

Gut Microbiota: Metagenomics to Study Ecology, 2nd Edition

edited by

Lifeng Zhu

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 884 | Submission Open

Keywords: metagenomics; ecology; multi-omics; metagenomic assembled genomes; function; host– microbe interactions; behavior; local adaptation; biodiversity conservation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Gut Microbiota)

Healthcare-Associated Infections and Antimicrobial Therapy—2nd Edition

edited by

Diamantis P. Kofteridis

and

Petros Ioannou

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 787 | Submission Open

Keywords: clinical microbiology; healthcare-associated infections; antimicrobial therapy

(This special issue belongs to the Section Medical Microbiology)

Genomics and Bioinformatics Tools in Host-Pathogen Interactions

edited by Allegra Via,

Stefano Pascarella

and

Rino Ragno

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | Viewed by 582 | Submission Open

Keywords: host– pathogen interactions; bioinformatics; genomics; proteomics; structural bioinformatics; functional genomics; immunoinformatics; next-generation sequencing; pathway analysis; machine learning applications

(This special issue belongs to the Section Molecular Microbiology and Immunology)

Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) and Microbiome: Etiopathogenesis, Diagnosis, and Therapeutic Advances

edited by

Michael Doulberis

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 540 | Submission Open

Keywords: inflammatory bowel disease; microbiome-immune interactions; microbiome modulation; gut– brain axes; gut– liver axes

(This special issue belongs to the Section Medical Microbiology)

Bridging Disciplines: Extremophiles and Their Implications for Astrobiology

edited by

David Holmes

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | Viewed by 519 | Submission Open

Keywords: extremophile microbiology; astrobiology; terrestrial analogues; microbial adaptation; evolutionary biology; metagenomics; biogeochemical cycles; technological innovations; astrobiology missions; space exploration implications

(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Microbiology)

Feature Papers in Plant–Microbe Interactions in North America

edited by

Nazrul Islam

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 442 | Submission Open

Keywords: plant– microbe interaction; plant-associated microbes; biotic and abiotic stresses; agricultural sustainability

(This special issue belongs to the Section Plant Microbe Interactions)

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