Control and Detection of Multiple Antibiotic Resistant Pathogens
A special issue of Microorganisms (ISSN 2076-2607). This special issue belongs to the section "Antimicrobial Agents and Resistance".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2020) | Viewed by 68040
Special Issue Editor
Interests: microbial pathogenesis; phage control; antibiotic resistance mechanism; food safety
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Dear Colleagues,
Over the last several decades, the overuse and misuse of antibiotics have led to the increased emergence of antibiotic-resistant pathogens. The repeated exposure to therapeutic antibiotics provides selection pressure for the evolution of multiple antibiotic resistance in pathogenic bacteria, which can cause serious infectious diseases. Therefore, the development of effective control and rapid detection tools is essential for treatment and prevention of multiple antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections. Many control systems including combination therapy, phage control, and antibiotic resistance mechanism-based systems (efflux pump and b-lactamase inhibitors) have been designed to improve antibacterial activity against multiple antibiotic-resistant pathogens. Many different approaches have been tried to develop rapid, selective, and sensitive detection tools for multiple antibiotic-resistant pathogens, including nucleic acid probes, molecular-based techniques (gene amplification and microarray hybridization), chemical methods (thermostable nuclease, radiometry, and lux gene luminescence), and physical methods (impedance, microcalorimetry, and flow cytometry).
In this Special Issue of Microorganisms, we invite you to send contributions concerning any aspects related to the control and detection of multiple antibiotic-resistant pathogens, including effective control systems such as combination therapy and phage control and reliable qualitative and quantitative detection techniques such as molecular-based diagnostic tools. In addition, antibiotic mechanism-based studies are also welcome for this Special Issue.
Prof. Dr. Juhee AhnGuest Editor
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Keywords
- detection techniques
- phage control
- combination therapy
- multiple antibiotic-resistant pathogens
- microbial pathogenesis
- antibiotic resistance mechanism
- food safety
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