Old and New Mechanisms of Microbial Drug Resistance
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Microbiology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (29 May 2023) | Viewed by 2772
Special Issue Editors
Interests: Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: mycobacteria; tuberculosis; infection diseases; early drug discovery; nontuberculous mycobacteria; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; Mycobacterium abscessus
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: antitubercular; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; Mycobacterium abscessus; drug resistance
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In 2017, WHO declared the critical need for research for new antibiotics to fight microbial drug resistance. In addition, WHO recently highlighted that the rise of antimicrobial resistance has been reinforced by the inappropriate use of antibiotics during the COVID-19 pandemic. Thus, international action plans for fighting antimicrobial resistance should be mandatory in the post-COVID-19 era.
Worldwide, more than a million people die each year from infections that do not respond to drugs, and scientists estimate that annual deaths will exceed 10 million by 2050.
According to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (USA) report, infections caused by drug-resistant microorganisms increased by 15% during the first year of the pandemic. In particular, some nosocomial pathogens are on the rise in intensive care and are of great concern to health authorities; these include antibiotic-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (increased by 78%) and the fungus Candida auris (increased by 60%). Bacteria, like viruses, develop mutations that are then selected by the environment; if the environment is full of antibiotics, the mutations that make the bacteria resistant to them will be favored.
Therefore, the study and the better understanding of the mechanisms related to microbial drug resistance could help us to look for novel strategies to surpass this problem.
Prof. Dr. Maria Rosalia Pasca
Dr. Giulia Degiacomi
Dr. Chiarelli Laurent
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.
Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. International Journal of Molecular Sciences is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.
Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. There is an Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal. For details about the APC please see here. Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.
Keywords
- multidrug resistance
- new drugs
- bacterial pathogens
- mycobacteria
