CALL FOR PAPERS
Bacterial Antimicrobial Resistance: Surveillance and Prevention
PLOS MEDICINE
Submit to this PLOS Medicine call for papers to help expand the global knowledge on bacterial antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Deadline extended to September 23rd 2022.
Sep
23
2022
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SCOPE
The emergence of pathogenic bacteria which cannot be effectively treated with existing drugs has been prioritized by WHO as one of the top ten global public health threats facing humanity. The burden of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is disproportionately observed in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), particularly sub-Saharan Africa.
PLOS Medicine is calling submissions of high-quality and high-impact research submissions related to the main drivers, surveillance and prevention of bacterial antimicrobial resistance, particularly in low- and middle-income settings. Submission of articles related to pathogens of highest concern and highest global burden (excluding Mycobacterium tuberculosis) are strongly encouraged, such as Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Streptococcus pneumoniae, Acinetobacter baumannii and Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
RESEARCH TOPICS
- The prevalence and clinical challenges of drug-resistant bacteria
- Interventions to reduce disease transmission
- Diagnostics informing antimicrobial prescribing
- Misuse and overuse of antimicrobials
- Economics of antimicrobial access and use
- One Health interventions
The pandemic of antimicrobial resistance is not something in the future. It is here already. Without high quality research on scientific and behavioural aspects of AMR, from the perspectives of human, animal and environmental health, we risk losing even the limited portfolio of antibiotics that we have left.
Ramanan Laxminarayan
One Health Trust (formerly the Center For Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy)
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GUEST EDITORS
Timothy Walsh
University of Oxford
Ramanan Laxminarayan
One Health Trust (formerly the Center For Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy)
Ana Cristina Gales
Universidade Federal de São Paulo
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Submit your paper to PLOS Medicine to be considered for this Collection.
Mention the Bacterial Antimicrobial Resistance Call for Papers in your cover letter. The Collection will publish later in 2022.
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