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 abre em uma nova guia/janela Submission Deadline: 31 March 2025 Microbiological Research

Special Issues

• Special Issue: Past, Present and Future of Antifungals: Advancements in Mechanisms of Action and Resistance abre em uma nova guia/janela Current Research in Microbial Sciences

• Special Issue on Antimicrobial Resistance abre em uma nova guia/janela Infection, Disease & Health

• Special issue: Genetic and environmental regulation of antimicrobial resistance abre em uma nova guia/janela Microbiological Research

Article collections

Cell Chemical Biology

• SARS-CoV-2 resistance to monoclonal antibodies and small-molecule drugs abre em uma nova guia/janela

• Targeting cap1 RNA methyltransferases as an antiviral strategy abre em uma nova guia/janela

• Modifying the antiviral innate immune response by selective writing, erasing, and reading of m6A on viral and cellular RNA abre em uma nova guia/janela

• PROTAC-mediated degradation of HIV-1 Nef efficiently restores cell-surface CD4 and MHC-I expression and blocks HIV-1 replication abre em uma nova guia/janela

• Discovery of antibiotics that selectively kill metabolically dormant bacteria abre em uma nova guia/janela

• Selective targeting of Plasmodium falciparum Hsp90 disrupts the 26S proteasome abre em uma nova guia/janela

• Discovery of dual-active ethionamide boosters inhibiting the Mycobacterium tuberculosis ESX-1 secretion system abre em uma nova guia/janela

Cell Host & Microbe

• Antibiotic resistance: A key microbial survival mechanism that threatens public health abre em uma nova guia/janela

• Variability in cell division among anatomical sites shapes Escherichia coli antibiotic survival in a urinary tract infection mouse model abre em uma nova guia/janela

• Host stress drives tolerance and persistence: The bane of anti-microbial therapeutics abre em uma nova guia/janela

• Susceptible bacteria can survive antibiotic treatment in the mammalian gastrointestinal tract without evolving resistance abre em uma nova guia/janela

• Fungicide-tolerant persister formation during cryptococcal pulmonary infection abre em uma nova guia/janela

Cell Reports

• In situ chemoproteomic profiling reveals itaconate inhibits de novo purine biosynthesis in pathogens abre em uma nova guia/janela

• Population genomics uncovers global distribution, antimicrobial resistance, and virulence genes of the opportunistic pathogen Klebsiella aerogenes abre em uma nova guia/janela

• Arginine catabolism is essential to polymyxin dependence in Acinetobacter baumannii abre em uma nova guia/janela

• A platform for predicting mechanism of action based on bacterial transcriptional responses identifies an unusual DNA gyrase inhibitor abre em uma nova guia/janela

• YjgM is a crotonyltransferase critical for polymyxin resistance of Escherichia coli abre em uma nova guia/janela

Current Research in Microbial Sciences

• Major facilitator superfamily efflux pumps in human pathogens: Role in multidrug resistance and beyond abre em uma nova guia/janela

• An updated view of bacterial endophytes as antimicrobial agents against plant and human pathogens abre em uma nova guia/janela

• A review on antimicrobial strategies in mitigating biofilm-associated infections on medical implants abre em uma nova guia/janela

Food Microbiology

• Antimicrobial effect of garlic against foodborne pathogens in ground mutton abre em uma nova guia/janela

• Bacillus subtilis fermented shrimp waste isolated peptide, PVQ9, and its antimicrobial mechanism on four Gram-positive foodborne bacteria abre em uma nova guia/janela

• Combined antimicrobial activity of short peptide and phage-derived endolysin against antibiotic-resistant Salmonella Typhimurium abre em uma nova guia/janela

• Nanoencapsulation enhances the antimicrobial and antioxidant stability of cyclic lipopeptides for controlling Fusarium graminearum abre em uma nova guia/janela

• Antimicrobial activity of essential oil components against Escherichia coli depends on the food components present in a food matrix abre em uma nova guia/janela

Infection, Disease & Health

• Prediction of multidrug-resistant bacteria (MDR) hospital-acquired infection (HAI) and colonisation: A systematic review  abre em uma nova guia/janela

• Regulating antimicrobial use within hospitals: A qualitative study abre em uma nova guia/janela

• Capacity building to address antimicrobial resistance in remote Australia: The inaugural HOT NORTH Antimicrobial Academy abre em uma nova guia/janela

• Attitudes to cross infection, nebuliser hygiene and antimicrobial resistance in people with cystic fibrosis: Results of an international survey abre em uma nova guia/janela

• Improvement in antibacterial use in intensive care units from Argentina: A quality improvement collaborative process evaluation using Normalization Process Theory abre em uma nova guia/janela

Infection Prevention in Practice

• Challenges of implementing antimicrobial stewardship tools in Low to Middle Income Countries (LMICs) abre em uma nova guia/janela

• Stewardship: it's going viral abre em uma nova guia/janela

• Management of BAME patients with a history of penicillin allergy: barriers to best practice and strategies to overcome these abre em uma nova guia/janela

• Antimicrobial resistance as a super wicked problem: how do we engage the public to be part of the solution abre em uma nova guia/janela

• Diagnostic stewardship: establishing the role of the hospital nurse to inform local engagement strategies abre em uma nova guia/janela

• Prescribing patterns of antimicrobials according to the WHO AWaRe classification at a tertiary referral hospital in the southern highlands of Tanzania abre em uma nova guia/janela

Infectious Medicine

• Epidemiology, resistant pathogens, and causes of early death in cases of bloodstream infection in patients with hematological malignancies from 2012–2019 abre em uma nova guia/janela

• Advanced approach for antifungal susceptibility and characterization of resistance properties in clinical and environmental isolates of Cryptococcus species complex abre em uma nova guia/janela

• Impact of extended-infusion piperacillin-tazobactam in a Canadian community hospital abre em uma nova guia/janela

• Pseudomonas aeruginosa: Infections and novel approaches to treatment “Knowing the enemy” the threat of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and exploring novel approaches to treatment abre em uma nova guia/janela

• Polymyxin sensitivity/resistance cosmopolitan status, epidemiology and prevalence among O1/O139 and non-O1/non-O139 Vibrio cholerae: A meta-analysis abre em uma nova guia/janela

• Metal nanoparticles as inhibitors of enzymes and toxins of multidrug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus abre em uma nova guia/janela

• Persistent Nocardia beijingensis infection in a patient with postoperative abscess and misuse of antibiotics in China abre em uma nova guia/janela

• Efficacy of new generation biosorbents for the sustainable treatment of antibiotic residues and antibiotic resistance genes from polluted waste effluent abre em uma nova guia/janela

• Epidemiological characteristics of ventilator-associated pneumonia in neurosurgery: A 10-year surveillance study in a Chinese tertiary hospital abre em uma nova guia/janela

• Characterization of isoniazid resistance and genetic mutations in isoniazid-resistant and rifampicin-susceptible Mycobacterium tuberculosis in China abre em uma nova guia/janela

• 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 abre em uma nova guia/janela

iScience

• The ARM repeat domain of hemocyanin interacts with MKK4 to modulate antimicrobial peptides expression abre em uma nova guia/janela

• Impedimetric antimicrobial peptide biosensor for the detection of human immunodeficiency virus envelope protein gp120 abre em uma nova guia/janela

• Ca-EDTA restores the activity of ceftazidime-avibactam or aztreonam against carbapenemase-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae infections abre em uma nova guia/janela

• Reactive oxygen species accelerate de novo acquisition of antibiotic resistance in E. coli abre em uma nova guia/janela

Journal of Hospital Infection

• Antimicrobial usage and stewardship in a hospice setting abre em uma nova guia/janela

• Evaluating antimicrobial utilization in 20 Korean long-term care hospitals: a call to action for antimicrobial stewardship abre em uma nova guia/janela

• The role of colonization with resistant Gram-negative bacteria in the treatment of febrile neutropenia after stem cell transplantation abre em uma nova guia/janela

• Prescription of Oral Antibiotics and its Appropriateness for Outpatients in a Tertiary-Care Hospital in Korea abre em uma nova guia/janela

• Factors associated with antibiotics for respiratory infections in Swiss long-term care facilities abre em uma nova guia/janela

Med

• Breastfeeding enrichment of B. longum subsp. infantis mitigates the effect of antibiotics on the microbiota and childhood asthma risk abre em uma nova guia/janela

• Refractory Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections treated with phage PASA16: A compassionate use case series abre em uma nova guia/janela

• Multidrug-resistant mutations to antiviral and antibody therapy in an immunocompromised patient infected with SARS-CoV-2 abre em uma nova guia/janela

• Mycoplasma genitalium in pregnancy, including specific co-infections, is associated with lower birthweight: A prospective cohort study abre em uma nova guia/janela

• Neutralizing antibodies after nebulized phage therapy in cystic fibrosis patients abre em uma nova guia/janela

• Functional modification of gut bacteria for disease diagnosis and treatment abre em uma nova guia/janela

Microbiological Research

• Antimicrobial peptides: Opportunities and challenges in overcoming resistance abre em uma nova guia/janela

• Antibiotic adjuvants against multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria: important component of future antimicrobial therapy abre em uma nova guia/janela

• Is there a role for intestinal sporobiota in the antimicrobial resistance crisis? abre em uma nova guia/janela

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 abre em uma nova guia/janela

• One Health approaches adapted in low resource settings to address antimicrobial resistance abre em uma nova guia/janela

• An agent-based model for collaborative learning to combat antimicrobial resistance: proof of concept based on broiler production in Senegal abre em uma nova guia/janela

• Global burden of HIV-negative multidrug- and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis based on Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 abre em uma nova guia/janela

• A bibliometric analysis of One Health approach in research on antimicrobial resistance abre em uma nova guia/janela

The Microbe

• Exploring endophytic actinomycetes: A rich reservoir of diverse antimicrobial compounds for combatting global antimicrobial resistance abre em uma nova guia/janela

• Physicochemical and metagenomic analysis of samples from the Roman Baths (Bath, UK) reveals high bacterial and archaeal diversity and a potential for antimicrobial discovery abre em uma nova guia/janela

• Overview of antimicrobial resistance and mechanisms: The relative status of the past and current abre em uma nova guia/janela

Trends in Microbiology

• Balancing act: counteracting adverse drug effects on the microbiome abre em uma nova guia/janela

• The role of cyclic nucleotides in bacterial antimicrobial resistance and tolerance abre em uma nova guia/janela

• Environmental microbiome, human fungal pathogens, and antimicrobial resistance abre em uma nova guia/janela

• Strategies for developing phages into novel antimicrobial tailocins abre em uma nova guia/janela

• Forecasting antimicrobial resistance evolution abre em uma nova guia/janela

• Plasmid-mediated colistin-resistance genes: mcr abre em uma nova guia/janela

Trends in Parasitology

• Peeling the onion: how complex is the artemisinin resistance genetic trait of malaria parasites? abre em uma nova guia/janela

• P-glycoproteins in anthelmintic safety, efficacy, and resistance abre em uma nova guia/janela

• Pass the boron: benzoxaboroles as antiparasite drugs abre em uma nova guia/janela

• The long and winding road towards new treatments against lymphatic filariasis and onchocerciasis abre em uma nova guia/janela

• Using our understanding of interactions between helminth metabolism and host immunity to target worm survival abre em uma nova guia/janela

• Next-generation sequencing technologies for helminth diagnostics and surveillance in ruminants: shifting diagnostic barriers abre em uma nova guia/janela

• Molecular markers for malaria genetic epidemiology: progress and pitfalls abre em uma nova guia/janela

• Plasmodium falciparum ring-stage plasticity and drug resistance abre em uma nova guia/janela