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EDITORIAL article

Front. Microbiol.

Sec. Infectious Agents and Disease

This article is part of the Research TopicAntimicrobial Surfaces and Airborne Pathogens: The New Frontiers in Hospital SafetyView all 7 articles

Editorial to the special issue "Antimicrobial Surfaces and Airborne Pathogens - The New Frontiers in Hospital Safety" to be published in the journal Frontiers in Microbiology

Provisionally accepted
Smagul Zh. KarazhanovSmagul Zh. Karazhanov1,2*Luminita AndronicLuminita Andronic3Mariana Carmen ChifiriucMariana Carmen Chifiriuc4,5Alina BereanuAlina Bereanu6
  • 1Institute for Energy Technology, Lillestrøm, Norway
  • 2Latvijas Universitate Cietvielu fizikas instituts, Riga, Latvia
  • 3Universitatea Transilvania din Brasov, Brașov, Romania
  • 4Universitatea din Bucuresti, Bucharest, Romania
  • 5The Biological Sciences Division, Romanian Academy, 125, Calea Victoriei, sector 1, RO - 010071, Bucharest, ROMANIA, Bucharest, Romania
  • 6Universitatea Lucian Blaga din Sibiu Facultatea de Medicina, Sibiu, Romania

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Keywords: Hospital-acquired infections (HAIs), Antimicrobial surfaces, Airborne pathogens, infection control strategies, ISO standards for antimicrobial testing, Respiratory particle emission and transmission risk

Received: 24 Nov 2025; Accepted: 24 Nov 2025.

Copyright: © 2025 Karazhanov, Andronic, Chifiriuc and Bereanu. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

* Correspondence: Smagul Zh. Karazhanov, smagulk@ife.no

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