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Call for Papers - Antimicrobial Resistance: Genes, Genomes and Emerging Technologies

Guest Editors:
Abd El-Latif Hesham: Beni-Suef University, Egypt
Youxiong Que: Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, China 
Divakar Sharma: Lady Hardinge Medical College, India

Submission Status: Open   |   Submission Deadline: 28 August 2023


BMC Genomics and BMC Microbiology are calling for submissions to our Collection on Antimicrobial Resistance: Genes, Genomes and Emerging Technologies. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has developed into a silent pandemic ever expanding in the background, disrupting lives and responsible for multiple deaths across the globe. As more of the research community joins in the fight against antimicrobial resistance to combat this ever-present threat to society, it has become clear that combining forces across disciplines is the way forward. A large part of the effort in combating AMR still comes from studying its genes and genomes, gathering surveillance and understanding cellular mechanisms to target. In recognition of this important, and growing area of research BMC Microbiology together with BMC Genomics welcome submissions to this cross-journal collection on antimicrobial Resistance: Genes, Genomes, and Emerging Technologies.

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Meet the Guest Editors

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Abd El-Latif Hesham: Beni-Suef University, Egypt

Abd El-Latif Hesham is a full Professor of Microbial Genetics and Environmental Meta-Genome Biotechnology, and presently working as Head of Genetics Department at the Faculty of Agriculture, Beni-Suef University (BSU), Egypt. He is one of the leading experts in the area of microbial genetics,  environmental meta-genome biotechnology, anti-microbial activates, and multi-drug resistant bacteria. Prof. Hesham has been elected as member of the Egyptian National Biotechnology Network of Expertise (NBNE); Member of the National Committee for Genetic Sciences and has been appointed as the Country Representative for Egypt and the Arab Counties by International Biodeterioration & Biodegradation Society (IBBS) UK, which belongs to the Federation of European Microbiological Societies. Prof. Hesham serves as an editorial board member for BMC Microbiology.

Youxiong Que: Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, China 

Youxiong Que is a full Professor in the College of Agriculture at the Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University (FAFU). He was employed as an assistant professor in 2008, promoted to be an associate professor in 2010 and a professor in 2015. He has been a visiting scientist at USDA-ARS during 2010-2011. He is now the director of Key Laboratory of Sugarcane Biology and Genetic Breeding, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs / FAFU, China. His research interests are in the fields of crop genetics and biotechnology especially sugarcane biotechnology, including but not limited to the following three aspects, molecular interaction between crop and pathogen, gene mining and function identification, and molecular breeding. 

Divakar Sharma: Lady Hardinge Medical College, India

Dr. Sharma has a PhD in Biotechnology from Jiwaji University, Gwalior and National JALMA Institute for Leprosy and Other Mycobacterial Diseases, Agra, India, with a special interest in drug resistant tuberculosis, antimicrobial resistance, bacterial infections, biofilms etc. After his PhD, he continued the post doctoral research work on the exploration of drug resistance in microbes by genomics, proteomic, and bioinformatics approaches in the National JALMA Institute for Leprosy and Other Mycobacterial Diseases and Aligarh Muslim University, India as an ICMR-PDF and SERB-N-PDF. After that Dr. Sharma served as a research scientist in IIT Delhi and Maulana Azad Medical College, Delhi, India. Currently he is working as a Scientist at Lady Hardinge Medical College, Delhi, India and exploring therenostics and alternative therapeutic drug target to combat antibiotic resistance.  


About the collection

BMC Genomics and BMC Microbiology are calling for submissions to our Collection on Antimicrobial Resistance: Genes, Genomes and Emerging Technologies. 

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has developed into a silent pandemic ever expanding in the background, disrupting lives and responsible for multiple deaths across the globe. As more of the research community joins in the fight against antimicrobial resistance to combat this ever-present threat to society, it has become clear that combining forces across disciplines is the way forward. A large part of the effort in combating AMR still comes from studying its genes and genomes, gathering surveillance and understanding cellular mechanisms to target. In recognition of this important, and growing area of research BMC Microbiology together with BMC Genomics welcome submissions to this cross-journal collection on antimicrobial Resistance – Genes, genomes, and emerging technologies.

The collection broadly covers and welcomes submissions in the following areas of research:

  • Genomic surveillance
  • Antimicrobial discovery
  • Machine learning and GWAS approaches
  • Genetic basis of AMR and AMR diagnostics
  • Global trends in AMR
  • AMR and big data
  • Tackling AMR
  • Emerging approaches to combat AMR
  • New technologies and methods in AMR research
  • Bacterial sequencing in clinical practice
  • Biosensors and artificial intelligence to support antimicrobial optimization
  • AMR modelling research
  • Exploring the targets to be used as theranostics

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  1. Identifying clarithromycin resistance is essential for eradicating Helicobacter pylori (HP). Therefore, we evaluated the performance of Allplexâ„¢ H.pylori & ClariR Assay (Allplexâ„¢) for diagnosing and detecting cla...

    Authors: Ilsoo Kim, Lee-So Maeng, Joon Sung Kim, Byung-Wook Kim, Dae Young Cheung, Jin Il Kim and Soo-heon Park
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2023 23:155
  2. Antimicrobial resistant infections continue to be a leading global public health crisis. Mobile genetic elements, such as plasmids, have been shown to play a major role in the dissemination of antimicrobial re...

    Authors: Nikolina Walas, Samuel Slown, Heather K. Amato, Tyler Lloyd, Monica Bender, Vici Varghese, Mark Pandori and Jay P. Graham
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2023 23:147
  3. Carbapenem-resistant gram-negative bacilli (CR-GNB) have been increasingly reported in China. However, dynamic monitoring data on molecular epidemiology of CR-GNB are limited in pediatric patients.

    Authors: Lijun Yin, Lu Lu, Leiyan He, Guoping Lu, Yun Cao, Laishuan Wang, Xiaowen Zhai and Chuanqing Wang
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2023 23:136
  4. Arsenic (As) with various chemical forms, including inorganic arsenic and organic arsenic, is the most prevalent water and environmental toxin. This metalloid occurs worldwide and many of its forms, especially...

    Authors: Congcong Li, Gongli Zong, Xi Chen, Meixia Tan, Wenhui Gao, Jiafang Fu, Peipei Zhang, Bing Wang and Guangxiang Cao
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2023 23:134
  5. The increasing spread of fluoroquinolone resistant enteric bacteria is a global public health concern. Children recently discharged from the hospital are at high risk of carriage of antimicrobial resistance (A...

    Authors: Kevin Kariuki, Mame Mareme Diakhate, Susan Musembi, Stephanie N. Tornberg-Belanger, Doreen Rwigi, Timothy Mutuma, Elizabeth Mutuku, Kirkby D. Tickell, Olusegun O. Soge, Benson O. Singa, Judd L. Walson, Patricia B. Pavlinac and Samuel Kariuki
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2023 23:129
  6. Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) is a zoonotic pathogen, that is transmitted from a variety of animals, especially cattle to humans via contaminated food, water, feaces or contact with infected envir...

    Authors: Hanady G. Nada, Amera Saeed El-Tahan, Gamal El-Didamony and Ahmed Askora
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2023 23:127
  7. The emergence of carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae (CRKP) attracted extensive attention. Information on CRKP from hospital wastewater (HWW) is limited. The aims of this study were to investigate the geno...

    Authors: Zhiqiang Xie, Jiangqing Huang, Shengcen zhang, BinBin Xu, Qianwen Zhang and Bin Li
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2023 23:115

Submission Guidelines

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This Collection welcomes submission of Research Articles. Before submitting your manuscript, please ensure you have read the submission guidelines of the journal you are submitting to on BMC Genomics or BMC Microbiology. Articles for this Collection should be submitted via our submission system, SNAPP (on BMC Genomics or BMC Microbiology). During the submission process you will be asked whether you are submitting to a Collection, please select "Antimicrobial Resistance: Genes, Genomes and Emerging Technologies" from the dropdown menu.

Articles will undergo the standard peer-review process of the journal they are considered in (BMC Genomics, BMC Microbiology) and are subject to all of the journal’s standard policies. Articles will be added to the Collection as they are published.

The Guest Editors have no competing interests with the submissions which they handle through the peer review process. The peer review of any submissions for which the Guest Editors have competing interests is handled by another Editorial Board Member who has no competing interests.