Cross-resistance and Co-resistance for Heavy Metals and Antimicrobials

Dear Colleagues,

I invite submissions for this Special Issue of Antibiotics dedicated to a topic of growing importance: the emergence of microbes resistant to a range of antimicrobial compounds in environments contaminated with heavy metals (more precisely defined as trace elements of environmental concern (TEoECs)).

Increasing intensification of human activity in both urban and rural environments, and related effects on undeveloped, once pristine areas, have created situations where TEoECs contaminate diverse ecosystems. This situation may promote selection for resistance to TEoECs and compounds used as antimicrobials, even in the absence of the latter.

This Special Issue welcomes submission of manuscripts including original research, review articles, and opinion papers. Presentation of data is welcome on the quantification of cross-resistance and co-resistance to TEoECs and antimicrobials in diverse environments including, for example, hospital settings, effluent from healthcare facilities, farms and other agricultural facilities, and wastewater treatment plants as well as the land and water receiving discharges from these plants.

Dr. Barry R. Palmer 
Guest Editor

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• heavy metal resistance
• antimicrobial resistance
• antibiotic resistance
• trace elements of environmental concern
• antibiotic resistance genes
• cross-resistance/co-resistance
• cross-resistance/co-resistance mechanisms
• selection for resistance
• environments selecting multi-resistant microbes
• in situ and in vitro resistance monitoring and modelling