Invasive Bacterial Diseases: Current State, Challenges, and Treatments
A special issue of Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease (ISSN 2414-6366). This special issue belongs to the section "Infectious Diseases".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2023) | Viewed by 2937
Special Issue Editors
Interests: microbiome; host–microbiota interactions; antimicrobial resistance; multidrug resistant bacteria; superbugs
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Invasive bacterial diseases (IBD) are one of the major causes of morbidity and mortality among people of different ages throughout the world. These infections are often self-limiting, but in cases where the immune system is weak, such as those in young infants and immunocompromised persons, these become very challenging and lethal. It is quite important to manage these infections as they often lead to life-threatening conditions such as sepsis, pneumonia, GBS in infants and pregnant women, and meningitis. The spectrum of causative agents includes several known pathogens such as streptococci (Group A and B), Hemophilus influenzae, Neisseria meningitidis, Staphylococcus aureus, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Escherichia coli, etc. These pathogens are evolving genetically to become more virulent as well as acquiring multidrug-resistant phenotypes, making them difficult to treat without vaccines. Despite the current development in a multi-omics-based understanding, it is evident that there are many caveats in the treatment of IBD, such as initial diagnosis, selection of proper antibiotic regime, biofilm formation and co-infection with multiple pathogens. In this Special Issue, we aim to collect and publish original research articles and reviews that include the diagnosis, epidemiology, and functional and genomic characteristics of these bacterial pathogens in the IBD and will include but are not limited to their pathogenicity, multidrug-resistance, and genetic evolution.
Dr. Amit Ranjan
Dr. Madhavi Annamanedi
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- bacterial Meningitis
- neonatal meningitis Escherichia coli (NMEC)
- streptococcus group A
- streptococcus group B
- hemophilus influenzae
- MRSA
- invasive Bacterial disease
- bacterial Sepsis
- neisseria meningitides
