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The inappropriate use and overuse of antimicrobials is recognized as the most important cause of the increasing bacterial resistance threat worldwide. The dissemination of antimicrobial-resistant bacteria is a common problem for which no immediate solution is foreseen. In 2017, the World Health Organization published a list of antimicrobial-resistant microorganisms with high level resistance to multiple antibiotics, named ESKAPE pathogens, comprising extended spectrum β-lactamase (ESBL) or carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae, methicillin- and vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA and VRSA), carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii, carbapenem-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa, vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (VRE), and extended spectrum β-lactamase (ESBL)- or carbapenem-resistant Enterobacter spp.

This Special Issue “Antimicrobials and Resistance” welcomes both research and review papers on recent developments and discoveries in antimicrobials and antimicrobial resistance, including antibiotic resistance genes and their dissemination, methodologies to detect resistance mechanisms, and the interrelationship between bacterial resistance and virulence.

Research and review papers can be presented not only by analyzing the antimicrobial resistance of human pathogens but also by pathogens of relevance in veterinary medicine or transmitted through food.

The data published in this issue could be helpful to implement the potential containment strategies against antimicrobial resistance.

With this we invite manuscript submissions into the following topics:

• Discover or development of new antimicrobials.
• Antibiotic resistance genes and their dissemination.
• Methodologies to detect resistance mechanisms.
• Interrelationship between bacterial resistance and virulence.
• Antimicrobial resistance in emerging pathogens.

Keywords
Antimicrobial resistance, antibiotics, mobile elements, plasmids, bacterial virulence, biofilms, biofilm formation, emerging pathogens.

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