Meet the editors

Dr. Mihai Mareș received his Ph.D. degree in Microbiology at Gr. T. Popa University of Medicine and Pharmacy from Iași-Romania (2005) and had postgraduate training at University VII Denis-Diderot, Pasteur Institute, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, École du Val-de-Grâce - Paris (France), Complutense University – Madrid (Spain), Instituto de Salud Global - Barcelona (Spain), Karolinska Institute – Stockholm (Sweden), and Danish Tech-

nical University - Lyngby (Denmark). His areas of interest are medical mycology, antimicrobial resistance, mycobacteria, food microbiology, biofilms, microbial induced infertility, and bio-medical applications of plasma discharges and cold plasma activated water. Currently, Dr. Mareș is a Professor of Microbiology and Head of the Antimicrobial Chemotherapy Laboratory at Ion Ionescu de la Brad University – Iași (Romania). Also, he is a member of the EUCAST Antifungal Susceptibility Testing Subcommittee and ESCMID Study Group for Veterinary Microbiology. He has served as a scientific consultant for several pharmaceutical companies during the past few years.

Dr. Erin Lim is presently working as an Assistant Professor in the Division of Health Sciences, Abu Dhabi Women's College, Higher Colleges of Technology in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates and is affiliated as an Associate Professor to Perdana University-Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Selangor, Malaysia. She obtained her Ph.D. from Universiti Putra Malaysia in 2010 with a National Science Fellowship awarded from the Ministry of Science,

Technology and Innovation Malaysia and has been actively involved in research ever since. Her main research interests include analysis of carriage and transmission of multidrug resistant bacteria in non-conventional settings, besides an interest in natural products for antimicrobial testing. She is heavily involved in the elucidation of mechanisms of reversal of resistance in bacteria in addition to investigating the immunological analyses of diseases, development of vaccination and treatment models in animals. She hopes her work will support the discovery of therapeutics in the clinical setting and assist in the combat against the burden of antibiotic resistance.

Dr. Lai Kok Song is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Health Sciences, Abu Dhabi Women's College, Higher Colleges of Technology in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. He obtained his Ph.D. in Biological Sciences from Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan in 2012. Prior to his academic appointment, Dr. Lai worked as a Senior Scientist at the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, Malaysia. His current

research areas include antimicrobial resistance and plant-pathogen interaction. His particular interest lies in the study of the antimicrobial mechanism via membrane disruption of essential oils against multi-drug resistance bacteria through various biochemical, molecular and proteomic approaches. Ultimately, he hopes to uncover and determine novel biomarkers related to antibiotic resistance that can be developed into new therapeutic strategies.

Currently, Dr. Romeo-Teodor Cristina is a Professor of Veterinary Pharmacology at Banat's University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine "King Michael I of Romania" of Timișoara-Romania. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in 1997 and had a postgraduate instruction at Liverpool University - School of Veterinary Medicine, UK. His areas of interest are antimicrobial resistance, veterinary drug agents, therapy, phytotherapy, and

Contents

**Section 1**

**Preface XI**

Molecular Mechanisms **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

**Chapter 2 25**

**Chapter 3 49**

Control Strategies **71**

**Chapter 4 73**

**Chapter 5 95**

**Chapter 6 113**

Strategic Role Players of Important Antimicrobial-Resistant Pathogens

*by Sandra Georgina Solano-Gálvez, María Fernanda Valencia-Segrove,* 

Antimicrobial Resistance in *Pseudomonas aeruginosa*: A Concise Review

*by Shama Mujawar, Bahaa Abdella and Chandrajit Lahiri*

*María José Ostos Prado, Ana Berenice López Boucieguez,* 

*Diego Abelardo Álvarez-Hernández and Rosalino Vázquez-López*

Plant-Associated Microorganisms as a Potent Bio-Factory of

Antimicrobial Effect of Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles *by Carol López de Dicastillo, Matias Guerrero Correa, Fernanda B. Martínez, Camilo Streitt and Maria José Galotto*

Dairy Farms Biosecurity to Protect against Infectious

Active Molecules against Multiresistant Pathogens *by Felipe de Paula Nogueira Cruz, Andréa Cristina Bogas* 

Mechanisms of Resistance to Quinolones

*by Swaraj Mohanty, Bighneswar Baliyarsingh* 

*and Suraja Kumar Nayak*

*and Cristina Paiva de Sousa*

Diseases and Antibiotics Overuse *by Stelian Baraitareanu and Livia Vidu*

**Section 2**

pharmacovigilance. He is the Editor-in-chief of the journal "Veterinary Drug" and a corresponding member of the Romanian Academy of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences, the European Association for Veterinary Pharmacology and Toxicology, and the European Federation for Pharmaceutical Sciences - Network on Veterinary Medicines. During the past few years, he has served as a technical consultant for several pharmaceutical companies and veterinary national authorities.
