Epidemiology and Surveillance of Bacterial Infections and Antimicrobial Resistance
A special issue of Pathogens (ISSN 2076-0817). This special issue belongs to the section "Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2023) | Viewed by 6133
Special Issue Editors
Interests: zoonotic bacteria; epidemic characteristics; drug resistance; pathogenic mechanism; vaccine
Interests: epidemiology; Mycobacterium bovis; brucellosis; bacterial drug resistance
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Bacterial pathogens, as one of the main groups of microorganisms, are involved in many infectious diseases. On the one hand, bacteria can spread among human beings various ways, such as via contact, the digestive tract, the respiratory tract, etc. On the other hand, bacterial infection can transfer between animals and humans, causing huge economic losses to human society and the livestock and poultry industries every year. To defend against bacterial infection, as early as the early 20th century, penicillin was first discovered, demonstrating good therapeutic effects in the clinical setting. In recent decades, an increasing number of antibiotics have been discovered by scientists and applied in many fields. However, the emergence of bacterial resistance has brought great difficulties to public health worldwide. Due to the abuse and misuse of antibiotics, the resistance mechanism of drug-resistant bacteria has gradually diversified and become more complicated. Many countries and regions have started to ban and reduce the use of some antibiotics. Increasing attention has been paid to the characteristics and mechanisms of resistance in bacteria while conducting epidemiological surveillance of bacteria, with animal-derived, human-derived, food-derived, and environmental bacteria often being studied as a unified whole. A number of biological techniques and breakthrough discoveries have emerged in the study of bacterial infection and drug resistance, moving towards the goal of “one health one world”.
For this Special Issue of Pathogens, we invite you to submit a review or research article related to epidemic characteristics, drug resistance, or the pathogenic mechanism of bacterial infections. We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Fangkun Wang
Dr. Mengda Liu
Dr. Xiangkai Zhuge
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- bacterial infections
- epidemic characteristics
- drug resistance
- pathogenic mechanism
