World Antimicrobial 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 Antimicrobial Awareness Week (WAAW) is your chance to be part of a worldwide movement dedicated to combating this urgent crisis. WAAW, observed from November 18th to 24th every year, unites people to raise awareness about AMR and inspire action.

This year's theme emphasizes the importance of collaboration across sectors to safeguard the effectiveness of antimicrobials. It's a call to arms for individuals, communities, healthcare professionals, veterinarians, environmentalists, and policymakers to come together and embrace a shared responsibility. By working collectively, we can make a significant impact.

Here's how you can make a difference:

• Use antimicrobials wisely and responsibly.

• Take preventative measures to reduce infection rates.

• Follow best practices for the disposal of antimicrobial-contaminated waste.

Join us in the fight against AMR during World Antimicrobial Awareness Week 2023. Together, we can protect our health, our planet, and the generations to come. Let's unite for a world free from the threat of drug-resistant infections.

Special Issues

Infection, Disease & Health

Special Issue on Antimicrobial Resistance 在新的选项卡/窗口中打开

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is global health threat. The causes and contributors to AMR vary, but include selective pressures by the overuse of antibiotics, genetic elements and substandard infection prevention and control practices. Infection Disease and Health is primarily concerned with the prevention and control of infections in human health. In this special issue of the journal, we have compiled a selection of articles that are related to one of the biggest challenges of our time – AMR. The articles included in this special issue include a broad range of topics, from antimicrobial stewardship, knowledge and attitudes towards antibiotics, prescribing practices and cost. Articles cover a diverse range of health settings, including hospitals, general practice and broader public health considerations. The special issue provides a great example of how the journal serves as an important platform for health research and uniquely contributes to the infection prevention and control agenda internationally.

International Journal of Infectious Diseases

AMR Collection 在新的选项卡/窗口中打开

Journal of Infection and Public Health

Special Issue on Antimicrobial Resistance, Stewardship and One Health 在新的选项卡/窗口中打开

Article collections

Cell Chemical Biology

• Dual-pharmacophore artezomibs hijack the Plasmodium ubiquitin-proteasome system to kill malaria parasites while overcoming drug resistance 在新的选项卡/窗口中打开

• Mitigating the risk of antimalarial resistance via covalent dual-subunit inhibition of the Plasmodium proteasome 在新的选项卡/窗口中打开

• Selective killing of the human gastric pathogen Helicobacter pylori by mitochondrial respiratory complex I inhibitors 在新的选项卡/窗口中打开

• Overcoming biological barriers to improve treatment of a Staphylococcus aureus wound infection 在新的选项卡/窗口中打开

• Identification of triazenyl indoles as inhibitors of fungal fatty acid biosynthesis with broad-spectrum activity 在新的选项卡/窗口中打开

• Genome- and metabolome-guided discovery of marine BamA inhibitors revealed a dedicated darobactin halogenase 在新的选项卡/窗口中打开

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Cell Host & Microbe

• Molecular de-extinction of ancient antimicrobial peptides enabled by machine learning 在新的选项卡/窗口中打开

• Multi-armed antibiotics for Gram-positive bacteria 在新的选项卡/窗口中打开

• Pulsed antibiotic treatments of gnotobiotic mice manifest in complex bacterial community dynamics and resistance effects 在新的选项卡/窗口中打开

• Long-term antibiotic exposure promotes mortality after systemic fungal infection by driving lymphocyte dysfunction and systemic escape of commensal bacteria 在新的选项卡/窗口中打开

• The resistance within: Antibiotic disruption of the gut microbiome and resistome dynamics in infancy 在新的选项卡/窗口中打开

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Clinical Infection in Practice

• Impact of common comorbidities on antimicrobial consumption and mortality amongst critically ill COVID-19 patients: A retrospective two center study in Saudi Arabia 在新的选项卡/窗口中打开

• A case of Extensively Drug Resistant (XDR) Extended Spectrum Beta-Lactamase (ESBL) typhoid fever in the Ambulatory Emergency Care (AEC) unit 在新的选项卡/窗口中打开

• Efficacy of convalescent plasma therapy in immunocompromised patients with COVID-19: A case report 在新的选项卡/窗口中打开

• Pneumococcal prosthetic joint infection – A challenging diagnosis 在新的选项卡/窗口中打开

• Oral step-down for Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia: An opportunity for antimicrobial stewardship? 在新的选项卡/窗口中打开

• Prescribing in a pandemic: Electronic prescribing aids to improve non-specialist adherence to COVID-19 guidelines 在新的选项卡/窗口中打开

• Impact of common comorbidities on antimicrobial consumption and mortality amongst critically ill COVID-19 patients: A retrospective two center study in Saudi Arabia 在新的选项卡/窗口中打开

• 30 Determining a potential alternative empirical antibiotic regimen for the treatment of neonatal sepsis in low- and middle-income settings using pre-clinical in vitro techniques 在新的选项卡/窗口中打开

• 35 The clinical utility of microbiological culture and molecular testing of heart valves in surgically treated infective endocarditis 在新的选项卡/窗口中打开

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Clinical Microbiology and Infection

• European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) guidelines for the treatment of infections caused by multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacilli (endorsed by European society of intensive care medicine) 在新的选项卡/窗口中打开

• Colonization by ceftazidime/avibactam-resistant KPC-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae following therapy in critically ill patients 在新的选项卡/窗口中打开

• ESCMID/EUCIC clinical practice guidelines on perioperative antibiotic prophylaxis in patients colonized by multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria before surgery 在新的选项卡/窗口中打开

• Antibiotic heteroresistance in ESKAPE pathogens, from bench to bedside 在新的选项卡/窗口中打开

• Impact of antibiotic intake on the incidence of extended-spectrum β-lactamase–producing Enterobacterales in sub-Saharan Africa: results from a community-based longitudinal study 在新的选项卡/窗口中打开

• Real-world clinical outcome of cefiderocol for treatment of multidrug-resistant non-fermenting, gram negative bacilli infections: a case series 在新的选项卡/窗口中打开

• Macrolide therapy in Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections causes uL4 ribosomal protein mutations leading to high-level resistance 在新的选项卡/窗口中打开

• The emergence of a multidrug resistant Salmonella Muenchen in Israel is associated with horizontal acquisition of the epidemic pESI plasmid 在新的选项卡/窗口中打开

• Clinical consequences of very major errors with semi-automated testing systems for antimicrobial susceptibility of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales 在新的选项卡/窗口中打开

• IDSA guidance and ESCMID guidelines: complementary approaches toward a care standard for MDR Gram-negative infections 在新的选项卡/窗口中打开

• How I manage a patient with MRSA bacteraemia 在新的选项卡/窗口中打开

• How to: screening for mcr-mediated resistance to colistin 在新的选项卡/窗口中打开

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Current Opinion in Microbiology

• Nothing makes sense in drug resistance except in the light of evolution 在新的选项卡/窗口中打开

• Interplay of emerging and established technologies drives innovation in natural product antibiotic discovery 在新的选项卡/窗口中打开

• Present and future outlooks on environmental DNA-based methods for antibiotic discovery 在新的选项卡/窗口中打开

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Epidemics

• Linking antimicrobial prescribing to antimicrobial resistance in the ICU: Before and after an antimicrobial stewardship program 在新的选项卡/窗口中打开

• Transmission dynamics of an antimicrobial resistant Campylobacter jejuni lineage in New Zealand’s commercial poultry network 在新的选项卡/窗口中打开

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Food Microbiology

• Determination and quantification of microbial communities and antimicrobial resistance on food through host DNA-depleted metagenomics 在新的选项卡/窗口中打开

• A five-year study on prevalence and antimicrobial resistance of Campylobacter from poultry carcasses in Poland 在新的选项卡/窗口中打开

• Combined metabolomics and transcriptomics analysis reveals the mechanism of antibiotic resistance of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium after acidic stress 在新的选项卡/窗口中打开

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Infection Prevention in Practice

• Management of BAME patients with a history of penicillin allergy: barriers to best practice and strategies to overcome these 在新的选项卡/窗口中打开

• World Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness Week 2023: the overlooked challenges of antimicrobial stewardship 在新的选项卡/窗口中打开

• Challenges of implementing antimicrobial stewardship tools in Low to Middle Income Countries (LMICs) 在新的选项卡/窗口中打开

• Antimicrobial resistance as a super wicked problem: how do we engage the public to be part of the solution 在新的选项卡/窗口中打开

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International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents

• Reducing the duration of antibiotic therapy in surgical patients through a specific nationwide antimicrobial stewardship program. A prospective, interventional cohort study 在新的选项卡/窗口中打开

• Changes in the prevalence of pathogens causing hospital-acquired bacterial pneumonia and the impact of their antimicrobial resistance patterns on clinical outcomes: A propensity-score-matched study 在新的选项卡/窗口中打开

• Effect of a national antibiotic stewardship intervention in China targeting carbapenem overuse: An interrupted time-series analysis 在新的选项卡/窗口中打开

• Antimicrobial resistance surveillance: China's nearly 40-year effort 在新的选项卡/窗口中打开

• The battle against fungi: lessons in antifungal stewardship from COVID 19 times 在新的选项卡/窗口中打开

• Prescription of antibiotics by general practitioners for patients with a diagnosis of SARS- CoV-2 infection: Analysis of an electronic French health record 在新的选项卡/窗口中打开

• Multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacilli recovered from respiratory and blood specimens from adults: the ATLAS surveillance program in European hospitals, 2018–2020 在新的选项卡/窗口中打开

• Geographic patterns of carbapenem-resistant, multi-drug-resistant and difficult-to-treat Acinetobacter baumannii in the Asia-Pacific region: results from the Antimicrobial Testing Leadership and Surveillance (ATLAS) program, 2020 在新的选项卡/窗口中打开

• Long-term follow-up of HIV-1 multi-drug-resistant treatment-experienced participants treated with etravirine, raltegravir and boosted darunavir: towards drug-reduced regimen? ANRS CO3 Aquitaine Cohort 2007–2018 在新的选项卡/窗口中打开

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International Journal of Infectious Diseases

Editorial

• Antimicrobial resistance – a global problem in need of global solutions 在新的选项卡/窗口中打开

Research articles

• Indications and classes of outpatient antibiotic prescriptions in Japan: A descriptive study using the national database of electronic health insurance claims, 2012–2015 在新的选项卡/窗口中打开

• Antibiotic use in Kenyan public hospitals: Prevalence, appropriateness and link to guideline availability 在新的选项卡/窗口中打开

• Surgical site infections after pancreaticoduodenectomy: Preoperative biliary system interventions and antimicrobial prophylaxis 在新的选项卡/窗口中打开

• Effectiveness of ceftazidime–avibactam versus colistin in treating carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae bacteremia 在新的选项卡/窗口中打开

• Emergence of clinical isolates of highly carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae co-harboring blaNDM-5 and blaOXA-181 or -232 in Nepal 在新的选项卡/窗口中打开

• In vitro efficacy of ceftazidime-avibactam, aztreonam-avibactam and other rescue antibiotics against carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales from the Arabian Peninsula 在新的选项卡/窗口中打开

• Value of routine whole genome sequencing for Mycobacterium tuberculosis drug resistance detection 在新的选项卡/窗口中打开

• High prevalence of ESBL-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae in clinical samples from central Côte d'Ivoire 在新的选项卡/窗口中打开

• Clonal expansion of colistin-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii isolates in Cape Town, South Africa 在新的选项卡/窗口中打开

• Molecular epidemiology of Carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae in a paediatric hospital in China 在新的选项卡/窗口中打开

Review

• Global Antimicrobial Stewardship with a Focus on Low- and Middle-Income Countries 在新的选项卡/窗口中打开

• Impact of vaccines on antimicrobial resistance 在新的选项卡/窗口中打开

• COVID-19 and antimicrobial stewardship: lessons learned, best practices, and future implications 在新的选项卡/窗口中打开

• Global knowledge gaps on antimicrobial resistance in the human health sector: A scoping review 在新的选项卡/窗口中打开

Perspectives

• Antibiotics and antimicrobial resistance in the COVID-19 era: Perspective from resource-limited settings 在新的选项卡/窗口中打开

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iScience

• Synthetic antibacterial discovery of symbah-1, a macrocyclic β-hairpin peptide antibiotic 在新的选项卡/窗口中打开

• A history of the MetaSUB consortium: Tracking urban microbes around the globe 在新的选项卡/窗口中打开

• Metagenomic analysis reveals the dissemination mechanisms and risks of resistance genes in plateau lakes 在新的选项卡/窗口中打开

• Bacterial memory in antibiotic resistance evolution and nanotechnology in evolutionary biology 在新的选项卡/窗口中打开

• Characterization of a novel genus of jumbo phages and their application in wastewater treatment 在新的选项卡/窗口中打开

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Journal of Global Antimicrobial Resistance

• Nosocomial Outbreak of Colistin-Resistant, Carbapenemase-Producing Klebsiella Pneumoniae ST11 in a Medical Intensive Care Unit 在新的选项卡/窗口中打开

• Impact of antimicrobial stewardship 2018 on severe pneumonia with bacterial infection in PICU 在新的选项卡/窗口中打开

• Emergence of optrA-mediated linezolid resistance in clinical isolates of Enterococcus faecalis from Argentina 在新的选项卡/窗口中打开

• Comparison of ANN and LR models for predicting Carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates from a southern province of China's RNSS data 在新的选项卡/窗口中打开

• Prevalence of antibiotic resistance of Staphylococcus aureus in cystic fibrosis infection: A systematic review and meta-analysis 在新的选项卡/窗口中打开

• Epidemiology of staphylococci species and their antimicrobial-resistance among patients with wound infection in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis 在新的选项卡/窗口中打开

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Journal of Hospital Infection

• Impact of Intensified Inpatient Clindamycin Stewardship Initiatives in Three Phases: A Pilot Quasi-Experimental Study 在新的选项卡/窗口中打开

• The cost-effectiveness of a real-time spatiotemporal mapping surveillance system for meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus prevention 在新的选项卡/窗口中打开

• Virulence genes and plasmid replicon profiles of selected β-lactamase-producing Acinetobacter baumannii from orthopaedic patients and the environment in a tertiary referral hospital in Tanzania, East Africa 在新的选项卡/窗口中打开

• Swimming pool policies for carriers of highly-resistant micro-organisms receiving rehabilitation care in the Netherlands 在新的选项卡/窗口中打开

• Wastewater-based epidemiology for tracking bacterial diversity and antibiotic resistance in COVID-19 isolation hospitals in Qatar 在新的选项卡/窗口中打开

• Qualitative analysis of healthcare provider perspectives to evaluating beta-lactam allergies 在新的选项卡/窗口中打开

• Modelling hospital disinfectant against multi-drug-resistant dry surface biofilms grown under artificial human sweat 在新的选项卡/窗口中打开

• Analysis of carbapenem-resistant strains isolated in a tertiary care hospital in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, during the years 2016 and 2020 在新的选项卡/窗口中打开

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Journal of Microbiological Methods

• Evaluation of metagenomic assembly methods for the detection and characterization of antimicrobial resistance determinants and associated mobilizable elements 在新的选项卡/窗口中打开

• A rapid MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry-based method for categorization of Pseudomonas aeruginosa from blood cultures as susceptible or resistant to meropenem 在新的选项卡/窗口中打开

• Comparison of FT-IR with whole-genome sequencing for identification of maternal-to‑neonate transmission of antibiotic-resistant bacteria 在新的选项卡/窗口中打开

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Med

• Refractory Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections treated with phage PASA16: A compassionate use case series 在新的选项卡/窗口中打开

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Microbes and Infection

• Nanomotion technology in combination with machine learning: a new approach for a rapid antibiotic susceptibility test for Mycobacterium tuberculosis 在新的选项卡/窗口中打开

• Therapeutic potential of kaempferol on Streptococcus pneumoniae infection 在新的选项卡/窗口中打开

• Crystal violet decolorization assay: a simplified colorimetric test for the rapid detection of multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates 在新的选项卡/窗口中打开

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Microbial Risk Analysis

• Estimating the likelihood of ESBL-producing E. coli carriage in slaughter-aged pigs following bacterial introduction onto a farm: A multiscale risk assessment 在新的选项卡/窗口中打开

• Multidirectional dynamic model for the spread of extended-spectrum-B-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli in the Netherlands 在新的选项卡/窗口中打开

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Microbiological Research

• The menace of colistin resistance across globe: Obstacles and opportunities in curbing its spread 在新的选项卡/窗口中打开

• Genomic insight into the distribution and genetic environment of blaIMP-4 in clinical carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae strains in China 在新的选项卡/窗口中打开

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Research in Microbiology

• Analysis of AcrB in Klebsiella pneumoniae reveals natural variants promoting enhanced multidrug resistance 在新的选项卡/窗口中打开

• Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium and the emergence of new sequence types associated with hospital infection 在新的选项卡/窗口中打开

• Bacteriophages potentiate the effect of antibiotics by eradication of persister cells and killing of biofilm-forming cells(opens in new tab/window) 在新的选项卡/窗口中打开

• Transcription factor mce3R modulates antibiotics and disease persistence in Mycobacterium tuberculosis 在新的选项卡/窗口中打开

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