Microbial Drug Resistance (MDR) is an international, peer-reviewed journal that covers the global threat and spread of multi-drug resistant clones of major pathogens that are widely documented in hospitals and the scientific community, the efforts to develop novel therapeutic strategies targeting the drug-resistant bacteria, reinforcing the barrier-effect of the microbiome and host directed responses.

The Journal also addresses the serious challenges of trying to decipher the molecular mechanisms of drug resistance, the dissemination of resistance between strains and species, and what we can learn from it to block the process.

MDR provides a multidisciplinary forum for peer-reviewed original and novel publications under four distinct formats:

Original Research Articles that describe in detail novel observations
Short Reports that briefly describe unique and novel observations
Review Articles that highlight the state-of-the-art in a particular field
Opinion Pieces, Commentaries and Perspectives on a particularly timely and impactful topic
Papers that describe only small incremental work will not be considered for peer review and publication.

MDR coverage includes:
Molecular biology of resistance mechanisms
Mechanisms of resistance dissemination and emergence
Molecular epidemiology of resistance
Reservoirs of resistance and antimicrobial genes
Targeting virulence genes and disease mechanisms
Drug design and screening
Novel natural products screens and anti-biotherapy
Novel Therapies
Host directed strategies
Infection control and stewardship

Editor
Alexander Tomasz, PhD
The Rockefeller University
Laboratory of Microbiology
1230 York Avenue
New York, NY 10021-6399
Tel: (212) 327-8277
Fax: (212) 327-8688
tomasz@mail.rockefeller.edu
Deputy Editor
Herminia de Lencastre, PhD
The Rockefeller University    
New York, NY
lencash@mail.rockefeller.edu
Editorial Board
Marta Aires de Sousa, PhD, Lisboa, Portugal

Karsten Becker, MD, Münster, Germany
Markus Bischoff, PhD, Homburg/Saar, Germany

Heike Brötz-Oesterhelt, PhD, Wuppertal, Germany

Karen Bush, PhD, Bloomington, IN  

Patrick Butaye, DVM, PhD, Merelbeke, Belgium

Rafael Cantón, MD, Madrid, Spain

Yehuda Carmeli, MD, MPH, Tel Aviv, Israel

Mariana Castanheira, PhD, North Liberty, IA

Vincent Cattoir, PhD, Caen, France

Henry F. Chambers, MD, San Francisco, CA

Boudewijn de Jonge, PhD, Cambridge, MA  

Herminia de Lencastre, PhD, New York, NY

Daniel J. Diekema, MD, Iowa City, IA
Seamus Fanning, PhD, Dublin, Ireland
Mohammad Mehdi Feizabadi, DVM, PhD, Tehran, Iran

Vance G. Fowler, Jr., MD, MHS, Durham, NC

Ernesto Garcia, PhD, Madrid, Spain

Gabriel O. Gutkind, PhD, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Robert E. W. Hancock, OC, FRSC, Vancouver, Canada

Henrik Hasman, PhD, Copenhagen, Denmark

Katie L. Hopkins, PhD, London, United Kingdom

George A. Jacoby, Jr., MD, Burlington, MA

Lars B. Jensen, MSc, PhD, Copenhagen, Denmark
Sa-Ouk Kang, PhD, Seoul, Korea

Winfried V. Kern, MD, Freiburg, Germany

Ken Kikuchi, MD, PhD, Tokyo, Japan
Ebbing Lautenbach, MD, MPH, MSCE, Philadelphia, PA

Frank Lowy, MD, New York, NY

José Melo-Cristino, MD, PhD, Lisbon, Portugal

Johan W. Mouton, MD, PhD, Nijmegen, Netherlands

Marie-Hélène Nicolas-Chanoine, MD, PhD, Clichy, France

Patrice Nordmann, MD, PhD,  Fribourg, Switzerland 

Timothy Palzkill, PhD, Houston, TX
Yu Pang, PhD, Beijing, China
Maria Pardos de la Gandara, MD, PhD, Paris, France

Thomas R. Parr Jr., PhD, Parsippany, NJ

Alvaro Pascual, PhD, Seville, Spain

James C. Paton, PhD, Adelaide, Australia

Luísa Vieira Peixe, PhD, Porto, Portugal

Bruno Périchon, PhD, Paris, France

Vincent Perreten, Dr sc techn, Berne, Switzerland

Andreas Peschel, PhD, Tubingen, Germany

Georg Peters, MD, Münster, Germany

Laurent Poirel, PhD,  Fribourg, Switzerland 

Michael J. Pucci, PhD, Cambridge, MA

Marilyn C. Roberts, PhD, Seattle, WA
Richard B. Roberts, MD, New York, NY

Agnes Marie Sá Figueiredo, PhD, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Raquel Sá-Leão, PhD, Oeiras, Portugal

Stefan Schwarz, DVM, Berlin, Germany

Anna Shore, PhD Dublin, Ireland 

Francisco Soriano, MD, PhD, Madrid, Spain

Neal H. Steigbigel, MD, Bronx, NY

Jacob Strahilevitz, MD, Jerusalem, Israel

Marc Struelens, MD, PhD, Brussels, Belgium

Arnfinn Sundsfjord, MD, PhD, Tromsø, Norway

Paul M. Tulkens, MD, PhD, Brussels, Belgium

Anne-Catrin Uhlemann, MD, PhD, New York, NY 

Alex Van Belkum, PhD, Rotterdam, Netherlands

Waldemar Vollmer, PhD, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom

Jaana Vuopio-Varkila, MD, PhD, Helsinki, Finland

Christoph Wenisch, MD, Vienna, Austria

Thomas A. Wichelhaus, MD, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Wolfgang Witte, PhD, Wernigerode, Germany

Managing Editor
Marie Curry