Unseen Threats: AMR and the Interconnected Health of Animals, Humans, and the Environment

A collaborative One Health theme integrates animal health, human health, environmental research strategies. This topic encourages diverse investigations into the emergence, distribution, and control of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) across these interrelated ecosystems.
Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) is an emerging and compounding global health threat that is occurring silently, displacing the effectiveness of treatment in human-based and veterinary-based medical care. Animals, humans, and the environment are interconnected, which offers opportunities for the continued dispersion of resistant pathogens and resistant genes. AMR is an exemplary One Health challenge and through this research topic we are welcoming emerging and cutting-edge research that examine the molecular, ecological, and epidemiological factors driving AMR. Our Research Topic will accept studies that include, but are not limited to:


-Molecular mechanisms and genetic markers of AMR found in zoonotic pathogens.


-Environmental reservoirs and possible transfer pathways of resistance genes through food, water, animal and environments.


-Surveillance systems and bioinformatics, genomics, and other tools for tracking AMR and genomic resistance across the sources of pathogens.


- The impact of antimicrobial agents used in the field of animal husbandry, fisheries, and veterinary sciences on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) as well as on the transmissibility of zoonoses in animals and humans.


-New interventions and stewardship strategies in human and veterinary medicine, as well as antimicrobial alternatives (e.g., phage therapy, probiotics, immunomodulators, etc.).


-Policy assessments, risk assessments, and intersectional data systems that facilitate AMR from a cross-sectoral approach.


-Socioeconomic and behavioral aspects of antimicrobial usage and resistance.


We greatly appreciate innovative, cutting-edge research, and "out of the box" approaches and ideas on this topic.

Keywords: one health, zoonotic diseases, molecular epidemiology, antimicrobial resistance, vaccine development

Important note: All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.