Antibiotic Collateral-sensitivity

Dear Colleagues,

Antibiotic collateral sensitivity (CS), when acquisition of resistance to one antibiotic leads to reduced resistance to a different antibiotic, is of importance to both clinicians, potentially impacting treatment strategies for chronic infections, and researchers who want to understand the mechanism and evolution of antibiotic resistance. The CS phenomenon has been observed in a growing number of bacteria taxa, with collateral sensitivity networks documented for multiple antibiotics.

Manuscripts about collateral sensitivity have been published in a wide range of journals. The field is at a place that warrants a special edition on CS. Such an edition would benefit those interested in CS as well as allow those tangential to the field to become familiar with CS.

We are asking if you would be interested in providing a manuscript for this Special Edition. The research focus can include CS mechanisms, clinical applications that exploit CS, evolutionary implications (such as fitness costs associated with CS), or a review article that would summarize the field to date.

Dr. Todd Robert Steck
Guest Editor

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