World AMR Awareness Week

“Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) occurs when bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites no longer respond to antimicrobial agents. As a result of drug resistance, antibiotics and other antimicrobial agents become ineffective and infections become difficult or impossible to treat, increasing the risk of disease spread, severe illness and death.

The World AMR Awareness Week (WAAW) is a global campaign to raise awareness and understanding of AMR and promote best practices among One Health stakeholders to reduce the emergence and spread of drug-resistant infections. WAAW is celebrated from 18-24 November every year.

The theme for the World AMR Awareness Week (WAAW) 2024 is “Educate. Advocate. Act now.” This theme was chosen based on feedback from an online survey among stakeholders from the human, animal, plant, and environmental health sectors, which collected nearly 200 responses globally.”

WHO, World AMR Awareness Week 2024

Enjoy this special collection of calls for papers, Special Issues, and article selections in celebration of World AMR Awareness Week 2024.

Call for Papers

• Call for Papers: Epidemiology, antimicrobial resistance (AMR), virulence, and control of Klebsiella pneumoniae, a bacterial pathogen with high clinical significance 새 탭/창에서 열기 Submission Deadline: 31 March 2025 Microbiological Research

Special Issues

• Special Issue: Past, Present and Future of Antifungals: Advancements in Mechanisms of Action and Resistance 새 탭/창에서 열기 Current Research in Microbial Sciences

• Special Issue on Antimicrobial Resistance 새 탭/창에서 열기 Infection, Disease & Health

• Special issue: Genetic and environmental regulation of antimicrobial resistance 새 탭/창에서 열기 Microbiological Research

Article collections

Cell Chemical Biology

• SARS-CoV-2 resistance to monoclonal antibodies and small-molecule drugs 새 탭/창에서 열기

• Targeting cap1 RNA methyltransferases as an antiviral strategy 새 탭/창에서 열기

• Modifying the antiviral innate immune response by selective writing, erasing, and reading of m6A on viral and cellular RNA 새 탭/창에서 열기

• PROTAC-mediated degradation of HIV-1 Nef efficiently restores cell-surface CD4 and MHC-I expression and blocks HIV-1 replication 새 탭/창에서 열기

• Discovery of antibiotics that selectively kill metabolically dormant bacteria 새 탭/창에서 열기

• Selective targeting of Plasmodium falciparum Hsp90 disrupts the 26S proteasome 새 탭/창에서 열기

• Discovery of dual-active ethionamide boosters inhibiting the Mycobacterium tuberculosis ESX-1 secretion system 새 탭/창에서 열기

Cell Host & Microbe

• Antibiotic resistance: A key microbial survival mechanism that threatens public health 새 탭/창에서 열기

• Variability in cell division among anatomical sites shapes Escherichia coli antibiotic survival in a urinary tract infection mouse model 새 탭/창에서 열기

• Host stress drives tolerance and persistence: The bane of anti-microbial therapeutics 새 탭/창에서 열기

• Susceptible bacteria can survive antibiotic treatment in the mammalian gastrointestinal tract without evolving resistance 새 탭/창에서 열기

• Fungicide-tolerant persister formation during cryptococcal pulmonary infection 새 탭/창에서 열기

Cell Reports

• In situ chemoproteomic profiling reveals itaconate inhibits de novo purine biosynthesis in pathogens 새 탭/창에서 열기

• Population genomics uncovers global distribution, antimicrobial resistance, and virulence genes of the opportunistic pathogen Klebsiella aerogenes 새 탭/창에서 열기

• Arginine catabolism is essential to polymyxin dependence in Acinetobacter baumannii 새 탭/창에서 열기

• A platform for predicting mechanism of action based on bacterial transcriptional responses identifies an unusual DNA gyrase inhibitor 새 탭/창에서 열기

• YjgM is a crotonyltransferase critical for polymyxin resistance of Escherichia coli 새 탭/창에서 열기

Current Research in Microbial Sciences

• Major facilitator superfamily efflux pumps in human pathogens: Role in multidrug resistance and beyond 새 탭/창에서 열기

• An updated view of bacterial endophytes as antimicrobial agents against plant and human pathogens 새 탭/창에서 열기

• A review on antimicrobial strategies in mitigating biofilm-associated infections on medical implants 새 탭/창에서 열기

Food Microbiology

• Antimicrobial effect of garlic against foodborne pathogens in ground mutton 새 탭/창에서 열기

• Bacillus subtilis fermented shrimp waste isolated peptide, PVQ9, and its antimicrobial mechanism on four Gram-positive foodborne bacteria 새 탭/창에서 열기

• Combined antimicrobial activity of short peptide and phage-derived endolysin against antibiotic-resistant Salmonella Typhimurium 새 탭/창에서 열기

• Nanoencapsulation enhances the antimicrobial and antioxidant stability of cyclic lipopeptides for controlling Fusarium graminearum 새 탭/창에서 열기

• Antimicrobial activity of essential oil components against Escherichia coli depends on the food components present in a food matrix 새 탭/창에서 열기

Infection, Disease & Health

• Prediction of multidrug-resistant bacteria (MDR) hospital-acquired infection (HAI) and colonisation: A systematic review  새 탭/창에서 열기

• Regulating antimicrobial use within hospitals: A qualitative study 새 탭/창에서 열기

• Capacity building to address antimicrobial resistance in remote Australia: The inaugural HOT NORTH Antimicrobial Academy 새 탭/창에서 열기

• Attitudes to cross infection, nebuliser hygiene and antimicrobial resistance in people with cystic fibrosis: Results of an international survey 새 탭/창에서 열기

• Improvement in antibacterial use in intensive care units from Argentina: A quality improvement collaborative process evaluation using Normalization Process Theory 새 탭/창에서 열기

Infection Prevention in Practice

• Challenges of implementing antimicrobial stewardship tools in Low to Middle Income Countries (LMICs) 새 탭/창에서 열기

• Stewardship: it's going viral 새 탭/창에서 열기

• Management of BAME patients with a history of penicillin allergy: barriers to best practice and strategies to overcome these 새 탭/창에서 열기

• Antimicrobial resistance as a super wicked problem: how do we engage the public to be part of the solution 새 탭/창에서 열기

• Diagnostic stewardship: establishing the role of the hospital nurse to inform local engagement strategies 새 탭/창에서 열기

• Prescribing patterns of antimicrobials according to the WHO AWaRe classification at a tertiary referral hospital in the southern highlands of Tanzania 새 탭/창에서 열기

Infectious Medicine

• Epidemiology, resistant pathogens, and causes of early death in cases of bloodstream infection in patients with hematological malignancies from 2012–2019 새 탭/창에서 열기

• Advanced approach for antifungal susceptibility and characterization of resistance properties in clinical and environmental isolates of Cryptococcus species complex 새 탭/창에서 열기

• Impact of extended-infusion piperacillin-tazobactam in a Canadian community hospital 새 탭/창에서 열기

• Pseudomonas aeruginosa: Infections and novel approaches to treatment “Knowing the enemy” the threat of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and exploring novel approaches to treatment 새 탭/창에서 열기

• Polymyxin sensitivity/resistance cosmopolitan status, epidemiology and prevalence among O1/O139 and non-O1/non-O139 Vibrio cholerae: A meta-analysis 새 탭/창에서 열기

• Metal nanoparticles as inhibitors of enzymes and toxins of multidrug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus 새 탭/창에서 열기

• Persistent Nocardia beijingensis infection in a patient with postoperative abscess and misuse of antibiotics in China 새 탭/창에서 열기

• Efficacy of new generation biosorbents for the sustainable treatment of antibiotic residues and antibiotic resistance genes from polluted waste effluent 새 탭/창에서 열기

• Epidemiological characteristics of ventilator-associated pneumonia in neurosurgery: A 10-year surveillance study in a Chinese tertiary hospital 새 탭/창에서 열기

• Characterization of isoniazid resistance and genetic mutations in isoniazid-resistant and rifampicin-susceptible Mycobacterium tuberculosis in China 새 탭/창에서 열기

• Evaluating the performance of the Alere PBP2a SA Culture Colony Test with the Vitek 2 Antimicrobial Susceptibility Test Card System as reference standard in coagulase-negative Staphylococcus species 새 탭/창에서 열기

iScience

• The ARM repeat domain of hemocyanin interacts with MKK4 to modulate antimicrobial peptides expression 새 탭/창에서 열기

• Impedimetric antimicrobial peptide biosensor for the detection of human immunodeficiency virus envelope protein gp120 새 탭/창에서 열기

• Ca-EDTA restores the activity of ceftazidime-avibactam or aztreonam against carbapenemase-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae infections 새 탭/창에서 열기

• Reactive oxygen species accelerate de novo acquisition of antibiotic resistance in E. coli 새 탭/창에서 열기

Journal of Hospital Infection

• Antimicrobial usage and stewardship in a hospice setting 새 탭/창에서 열기

• Evaluating antimicrobial utilization in 20 Korean long-term care hospitals: a call to action for antimicrobial stewardship 새 탭/창에서 열기

• The role of colonization with resistant Gram-negative bacteria in the treatment of febrile neutropenia after stem cell transplantation 새 탭/창에서 열기

• Prescription of Oral Antibiotics and its Appropriateness for Outpatients in a Tertiary-Care Hospital in Korea 새 탭/창에서 열기

• Factors associated with antibiotics for respiratory infections in Swiss long-term care facilities 새 탭/창에서 열기

Med

• Breastfeeding enrichment of B. longum subsp. infantis mitigates the effect of antibiotics on the microbiota and childhood asthma risk 새 탭/창에서 열기

• Refractory Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections treated with phage PASA16: A compassionate use case series 새 탭/창에서 열기

• Multidrug-resistant mutations to antiviral and antibody therapy in an immunocompromised patient infected with SARS-CoV-2 새 탭/창에서 열기

• Mycoplasma genitalium in pregnancy, including specific co-infections, is associated with lower birthweight: A prospective cohort study 새 탭/창에서 열기

• Neutralizing antibodies after nebulized phage therapy in cystic fibrosis patients 새 탭/창에서 열기

• Functional modification of gut bacteria for disease diagnosis and treatment 새 탭/창에서 열기

Microbiological Research

• Antimicrobial peptides: Opportunities and challenges in overcoming resistance 새 탭/창에서 열기

• Antibiotic adjuvants against multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria: important component of future antimicrobial therapy 새 탭/창에서 열기

• Is there a role for intestinal sporobiota in the antimicrobial resistance crisis? 새 탭/창에서 열기

Science in One Health

• Multi-modal deep learning based on multi-dimensional and multi-level temporal data can enhance the prognostic prediction for multi-drug resistant pulmonary tuberculosis patients 새 탭/창에서 열기

• One Health approaches adapted in low resource settings to address antimicrobial resistance 새 탭/창에서 열기

• An agent-based model for collaborative learning to combat antimicrobial resistance: proof of concept based on broiler production in Senegal 새 탭/창에서 열기

• Global burden of HIV-negative multidrug- and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis based on Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 새 탭/창에서 열기

• A bibliometric analysis of One Health approach in research on antimicrobial resistance 새 탭/창에서 열기

The Microbe

• Exploring endophytic actinomycetes: A rich reservoir of diverse antimicrobial compounds for combatting global antimicrobial resistance 새 탭/창에서 열기

• Physicochemical and metagenomic analysis of samples from the Roman Baths (Bath, UK) reveals high bacterial and archaeal diversity and a potential for antimicrobial discovery 새 탭/창에서 열기

• Overview of antimicrobial resistance and mechanisms: The relative status of the past and current 새 탭/창에서 열기

Trends in Microbiology

• Balancing act: counteracting adverse drug effects on the microbiome 새 탭/창에서 열기

• The role of cyclic nucleotides in bacterial antimicrobial resistance and tolerance 새 탭/창에서 열기

• Environmental microbiome, human fungal pathogens, and antimicrobial resistance 새 탭/창에서 열기

• Strategies for developing phages into novel antimicrobial tailocins 새 탭/창에서 열기

• Forecasting antimicrobial resistance evolution 새 탭/창에서 열기

• Plasmid-mediated colistin-resistance genes: mcr 새 탭/창에서 열기

Trends in Parasitology

• Peeling the onion: how complex is the artemisinin resistance genetic trait of malaria parasites? 새 탭/창에서 열기

• P-glycoproteins in anthelmintic safety, efficacy, and resistance 새 탭/창에서 열기

• Pass the boron: benzoxaboroles as antiparasite drugs 새 탭/창에서 열기

• The long and winding road towards new treatments against lymphatic filariasis and onchocerciasis 새 탭/창에서 열기

• Using our understanding of interactions between helminth metabolism and host immunity to target worm survival 새 탭/창에서 열기

• Next-generation sequencing technologies for helminth diagnostics and surveillance in ruminants: shifting diagnostic barriers 새 탭/창에서 열기

• Molecular markers for malaria genetic epidemiology: progress and pitfalls 새 탭/창에서 열기

• Plasmodium falciparum ring-stage plasticity and drug resistance 새 탭/창에서 열기