Antimicrobial Resistance and One Health
A special issue of Microorganisms (ISSN 2076-2607). This special issue belongs to the section "Public Health Microbiology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2024 | Viewed by 93
Special Issue Editor
Interests: clinical, livestock, environmental microbiology; pathogen ecology; detection and surveillance; antimicrobial resistance; microbiomes; climate change
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a growing global issue that threatens the lifesaving role of antibiotics, upon which modern medicine is highly dependent. The emergence of AMR in human pathogens is interlinked with AMR in livestock and the wider environment. More concerning is that AMR can be acquired by microorganisms through horizontal gene transfer (HGT), which can exacerbate and accelerate the development of multi-drug resistance in pathogens including opportunistic zoonotic pathogens.
The One Health approach recognizes that antibiotic resistance is not just a human health issue, but also affects animals and the environment. It also recognises the power of sequencing technologies that have transformed our understanding of infectious diseases and pathogen evolution, including the transmission of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Hence, identifying drivers of multi-resistant pathogens is a public health priority.
This Special issue will shed light on a wide range of factors driving AMR, including socioeconomic factors, climate, sanitation, and environmental transmission via air, water, and soil that also play a critical role.
Prof. Dr. Hermine Mkrtchyan
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- AMR
- One Health
- (meta)genomics
- human
- livestock
- environment
- microbiomes
