The editors of Exploratory Animal and Medical Research are pleased to announce that a Special Issue on “One Health Approach to Mitigate Antimicrobial Resistance: The Global Health Challenge of Current Times” will be published in August 2024. 

Human and animal populations are at risk of cross-transmission of zoonotic bacteria via direct contact due to proximity with food animals, companion animals, live wildlife market, environmental contamination, and intake of contaminated animal origin food items. The situation becomes more complicated due to the cross-transmission of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) determinants along with the infection. In humans, over-prescription of antimicrobials is the major source of selection for antimicrobial-resistant bacteria but the use of antimicrobials in food animals, and environmental resistance gene pool also plays important roles in this complex multi-factorial state of affairs.AMR leads to enormous financial losses associated with high morbidity, mortality, man-day loss, hospital length of stay, direct health-care costs and social costs of infection. About 700,000 deaths per year were attributed to AMR alone which is more than the toll caused by malaria, acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), and tuberculosis. World Health Organization (WHO) identified eight pathogens relevant to AMR, among them five are pathogenic or commensal bacteria (Klebsiella pneumonia, Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus, Neisseria gonorrhoeae, Mycobacterium tuberculosis). Addressing AMR in developing countries was considered crucial by the United Nations to attend to sustainable development goals (SDGs) associated with poverty and hunger alleviation and improvement of health and economic growth. In low-and-middle-income countries (LMICs) such as India, the current rate of AMR-related infections is high and is projected to grow more rapidly than the developed countries. The special issue will address the current circulation of commensals /pathogens carrying antimicrobial resistance determinants in humans and animals, the use of antibiotics in human/livestock/aquaculture, consequences of AMR, the role of wildlife/ live market/environment in spreading AMR in the community, alternatives to antibiotic usage, and the holistic ‘one health’ based approach to mitigate the problem.

All the manuscripts should be submitted at assoeditor@animalmedicalreseaerch.org Contributors are advised to submit as early as possible and should aim to do so before the submission deadline ends.

Submission deadline: 30th April 2024
First decision: 31st May 2024
Final decision: 31st June 2023
Publishing of the Special Issue: August 2024

While preparing a manuscript, please strictly follow the instructions available at the ‘GUIDELINE’ page of the journal website: http:// www.animalmedicalresearch.org.  

Those manuscripts that fail to follow the instructions will be rejected without being sent for external review.

As the journal is a free and open-access journal, no money is to be paid in any form for publication of the articles.

Articles of the Special Issue will be available as open access at the journal website www.animalmedicalresearch.org.

Guest editors:

Dr. Indranil Samanta 

Associate Professor, Department of Veterinary Microbiology, West Bengal University of Animal and Fishery Sciences, Kolkata, West Bengal, India, 

And 

Dr. Samiran Bandyopadhyay 

Principal Scientist, Eastern Regional Station, ICAR-Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Kolkata, West Bengal, India.