Antibiotic Resistance

Dr. Kateryna Kon, MD, PhD, currently works at the Department of Microbiology, Virology and Immunology at Kharkiv National Medical University, Kharkiv, Ukraine as an Associate Professor. Dr. Kon received the Best Young Scientist of Kharkiv Award in 2007. She has ten years of teaching and fifteen years of research experience. She is an editorial board member of six international peer-reviewed journals. Dr. Kon's scientific contributions include more than 100 publications, 6 books and 18 scientific articles. The main focus of Dr. Kon’s research is antibiotic resistance in bacteria, coping with microbial resistance by plant essential oils and nanoparticles, microbiology of surgical and gynaecological infections, application of different statistical methods to analysis of biomedical data. Professor Mahendra Rai is a UGC-Basic Science Research Faculty Fellow and former head of the Department of Biotechnology, Sant Gadge Baba Amravati University, India. Presently, he is a visiting Scientist at the Department of Microbiology, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland. His areas of expertise include microbial biotechnology and nanobiotechnology. Currently, his group’s main research interest is green synthesis of metal nanoparticles particularly using fungi and their applications as nanoantimicrobials against pathogenic microbes. Prof. Rai has received several prestigious awards, including the Medini Award by the Government of India. He has been featured in Stanford’s list of the top 2% of scientists in nanoscience.

1 Antibiotic Stewardship: Hospital Strategies to Curb Antibiotic Resistance2 Mechanisms of antibacterial resistance: shedding some light over these obscure processes?3 Signaling pathways sustaining antibiotic resistance4 Emerging drug resistance in bacterial enteric pathogens5 Carbapenem resistant gram-negative bacilli6 Antibiotic resistance: Can nanoparticles tackle the problem?7 Nanoarchitectonics used in anti-infective therapy8 Nanobiocomposites of metals as antimicrobial agents9 Nano/nitric oxide and antibiotic resistance10 Controlling bacterial antibiotic resistance using plant-derived compounds11 Essential oils: A natural alternative to antibiotics resistance12 Essential oil sensitivity of ESBL-producing Gram-negative bacteria13 Antimicrobial and antibiotic potentiating activity of essential oils from tropical medicinal herbs and spices14 Antimicrobial natural products against bacterial biofilms15 The potential use of bacteriophage therapy as a treatment option in a post antibiotic era16 Bacteriocins and its use for multidrug resistance bacterial control17 Marine natural products in fighting microbial infections18 Algae as a novel source of antimicrobial compounds: current and future perspectives