Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is increasingly becoming a global problem. The overuse and misuse of antimicrobial drugs in food-producing animals not only lead to the emergence and spreading of antimicrobial resistance genes (ARGs), but also cause environmental pollution and pose public health risk with the selection of AMR that can spread from animal populations to humans. Furthermore, drug residues pollution from inadequate treatment of farm waste is expanding the resistome in the environment. WHO, FAO and OIE promote One Health as the guiding frame for national responses to AMR. Many countries and governments have banned the use of antimicrobial drugs as a feed additive for food-producing animals. Although remarkable progress has been made in recent years, the emergence and spread of antimicrobial resistance in animals, environment and human remains a serious problem. Thus, further studies about antimicrobial drug residues and drug resistance based on One Health approach are urgently needed.
The issue of Antimicrobial Drug Residue and Drug Resistance will focus on but not limited to the following topics:
- New technology for antimicrobial resistance and drug residue surveillance
- Molecular epidemiological investigation of antimicrobial resistance in zoonotic pathogens
- Discovery and functional validation of novel ARGs in multidrug-resistant pathogens
- Mechanisms of resistance generation and adaptation
- Cross-antimicrobial resistance transmission of zoonotic pathogens based on the concept of "One Health"
- Risk assessment of traceability and transmission of antimicrobial resistance in animal breeding environment
- Antimicrobial resistance risk analysis methodologies
- New technology of antimicrobial resistance reduction and control
The aim of this issue is to provide timely reports about the detection, surveillance, transmission, reduction and control of antimicrobial resistance based on One Health approach in certain areas or in a global scale. Original Research papers, Reviews or Mini-Reviews focusing on antimicrobial drug residues and drug resistance are welcomed.
Articles will undergo all of the journal's standard peer review and editorial processes outlined in its submission guidelines.
Guest Editor: Hongning Wang
Associate Editor of Animal Diseases
Professor and Dean of the College of Life Sciences, Sichuan University, China.
E-mail: whongning@163.com
Science Editor: Haihong Hao
Professor of Veterinary Pharmacology and Toxicology, College of Animal Sciences & Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University
E-mail: haohaihong@mail.hzau.edu.cn
Science Editor: Anyun Zhang
Professor of Veterinary Microbiology, College of Life Sciences, Sichuan University, China
E-mail: zhanganyun@scu.edu.cn
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Submission Deadline: October 30, 2022