Section I The Mechanisms and Spread of Antimicrobial Resistance 1. Antimicrobial resistance: a global problem with limited answers Vinay Kumar Department of Biotechnology, Modern college, Ganeshkhind, Pune, India; & Department of Environmental Sciences, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Ganeshkhind, Pune, India Email: vinay.kumar@moderncollegegk.org 2. Antimicrobial resistance in ESKAPE pathogens: an overview Nitaya Indrawattana Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand Email: nitaya.ind@mahidol.ac.th Karishma Pardesi Department of Microbiology, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune, India Email: karishma@unipune.
ac.in 3. Antimicrobial resistance: from hospital settings to the environment Zulqarnain Baloch College of Veterinary Medicine, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, 510642, China Email: znbalooch@yahoo.com Johan Bengtsson-Palme Centre for Antibiotic Resistance Research (CARe), University of Gothenburg, Box 440, SE-40530, Gothenburg, Sweden E-mail: johan.bengtsson-palme@microbiology.se 4. Antimicrobial resistance in agriculture and livestock Ronald R Marquardt Department of Animal Sciences, The University of Manitoba, Winnipeg MB, Canada Email: rr_marquardt@umanitoba.ca P.
L. Mehndiratta Department of Microbiology, Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi, India Email: pmehndi@gmail.com 5. Major players involved in spread of antimicrobial resistance S. Ganesh Kumar Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, JIPMER, Puducherry, India. E-mail: sssgan@yahoo.com James A. Ayukekbong Section for Clinical Microbiology, Redeem Biomedical, Buea, Cameroon; & Metabiota Inc.
, Nanaimo, BC, Canada Email: ayukjim@yahoo.com 6. An overview of molecular mechanisms underlying antimicrobial resistance V. Dubois Laboratory of Bacteriology, Bordeaux University Hospital, France University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France Email: veronique.dubois@u-bordeaux.fr M Hamze Laboratoire Microbiologie Santé et Environnement (LMSE), Ecole Doctorale des Sciences et de Technologie, Faculté de Santé Publique, Université Libanaise, Tripoli, Lebanon. Email: mhamze@monzerhamze.com Muhammad Khalid Bashir Animal Breeding and Genetics, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan Email: mkhalidbashir@uaf.
edu.pk 7. Advances in omics approaches for detecting/characterizing antimicrobial resistance Patrícia M. G. Paiva, Departamento de Bioquímica, Centro de Biociências, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Pernambuco, Brazil Email: ppaivaufpe@yahoo.com.br John P Hays Department of Medical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, Erasmus University Medical Center (Erasmus MC), Rotterdam, The Netherlands Email: j.hays@erasmusmc.
nl 8. Alarming drug resistance in urban setups Wei Xing Key Laboratory of Aquatic Botany and Watershed Ecology, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074, China Email: xingwei108@wbgcas.cn Sayali Patil Department of Environmental Sciences, Savitribai Phule Pune University Pune, India Email: sayali.patil@unipune.ac.in Akhand Pratap Singh School of Material Science and Technology, Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi, India Email: akhandbiotech@gmail.com Section II Novel and Alternative Approaches for Tackling Antimicrobial Resistance 9. Emerging trends in developing alternative therapies for combating antimicrobial resistance Raffaele Zarrilli Department of Preventive Medical Sciences, Federico II University of Naples Italy Email: rafzarri@unina.
it Asad U. Khan Interdisciplinary Biotechnology Unit, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India Email: asad.k@rediffmail.com Anthony Boutin Department of Emergency Medicine, Nassau University Medical Center, Hempstead Turnpike, East Meadow, NY, United States Email: aboutin@numc.edu 10. Novel medicinal plants/ plant derived molecules for combating antimicrobial resistance via re-potentiating the fading antibiotic arsenal Reema Gabrani Department of Biotechnology, Jaypee Institute of Information Technology Noida, India Email: reema.gabrani@jiit.ac.
in J.S. Eswari Department of Biotechnology, National Institute of Technology Raipur, India Email: satyaeswarij.bt@nitrr.ac.in Fazlurrahman Khan Department of Biotechnology, School of Engineering and Technology, Sharda University, Greater Noida, India Email: fazlurrahman.khan@sharda.ac.
in 11. Potential synthetic treatments for antimicrobial resistant pathogens Javed Ali Department of Chemical Engineering, Centre for Biological Engineering, Loughborough University, Loughborough, Leicestershire, UK Email: J.Ali@lboro.ac.uk John Cavanagh, Department of Molecular and Structural Biochemistry, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA, Email: anavacj@ncsu.edu 12. Application of phytotherapeutics as antibiotic alternatives in animal feed Isabel Blanco-Penedo Animal Welfare Subprogram, Institute of Agrifood Research and Technology, Girona, Spain Email: isabel.blanco.
penedo@slu.se Joshua Gong Guelph Food Research Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Guelph, Canada Email: joshua.gong@agr.gc.ca 13. Antimicrobial peptides as effective agents against drug resistant pathogens Bhim Pratap Singh Department of Biotechnology, Mizoram University, Aizawl, India Email: bhimpratap@gmail.com Mohamed N. Seleem Department of Comparative Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA Email: mseleem@purdue.
edu 14. Essential oils for resensitizing/combating antimicrobial resistance Anca Miron Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Medicine and Pharmacy Grigore T. Popa-Iasi, Universitatii, Iasi, Romania Email: ancamiron@yahoo.com or anca.miron@umfiasi.ro Manuel Simões LEPABE, Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Portugal Email: mvs@fe.up.pt Abdelhakim Bouyahyaa Laboratory of Human Pathologies Biology, Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences Mohammed V University, Rabat, Morocco E-mail: boyahyaa-90@hotmail.
fr 15. Plant secondary metabolites for tackling antimicrobial resistance Swee-Hua Erin Lim Health Sciences Division, Abu Dhabi Women''s College, Higher Colleges of Technology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Email: erinlim@perdanauniversity.edu.my Abhay Prakash Mishra Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University, Srinagar, Garhwal, India Email: abhaycimap@gmail.com 16. Microbial secondary metabolites for combating antimicrobial resistance Jolanta Solecka National Institute of Public Health - National Institute of Hygiene, Department of Environmental Health and Safety, Warsaw, Poland Email: jsolecka@pzh.gov.pl Zhiqiang Wang Jiangsu Coinnovation Centre for Prevention and Control of Important Animal Infectious Diseases and Zoonoses, Yangzhou, Jiangsu, China E-mail: zqwang@yzu.
edu.cn 17. Phyterapeutics for combating drug efflux pumps Khondaker M. Rahman Institute of Pharmaceutical Science, King''s College London, Britannia House, London, UK Email: k.miraz.rahman@kcl.ac.uk Renato Fani Department of Biology, University of Florence, Sesto Fiorentino, Florence, Italy Email: renato.
fani@unifi.it 18. Plant based plasmid curing agents for combating antimicrobial agents Simon Gibbons Research Department of Pharmaceutical and Biological Chemistry, UCL School of Pharmacy, London, UK Email: simon.gibbons@ucl.ac.uk Anja Schuffler Institute of Biotechnology and Drug Research Erwin-Schrodinger Strabe, Germany Email: schueffler@ibwf.de 19. Anti-quorum sensing agents from natural sou.