One Health Approaches to Antimicrobial Resistance: Transmission and Transport Across Human-Environment-Agriculture Interfaces

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has been recognized as an imminent threat to public health. At the same time, anthropogenic activities driven by globalization and urbanization have contributed to a range of socio-environmental challenges, including water scarcity, pollution, and food insecurity, all of which can exacerbate AMR risks. Together, these pressures increase threats to both public and environmental health by elevating human exposure to AMR determinants through multiple pathways, including contaminated environments, zoonotic disease transmission, and food safety risks. In this context, the ‘One Health’ approach – which emphasizes the interconnectedness of disease transmission across human, environmental, and agricultural systems – has gained increasing attention. It enables a more comprehensive understanding of disease epidemiology and supports the identification of hotspots where AMR persists and spreads across multiple compartments within the One Health framework.The main goals of this Research Topic are to (1) advance and explore novel approaches for the identification of infectious disease agents, including human pathogens and antimicrobial resistance, within the One Health framework, and (2) develop effective intervention strategies to mitigate the emergence, transmission, and spread of these threats across interconnected systems. We are particularly interested in multi-sectoral approaches that bridge human, urban, environmental, and agricultural systems, as well as multi-disciplinary approaches that employ novel techniques drawing on diverse scientific fields, including, but not limited to biology, chemistry, data science, and social sciences. Through such collaboration, this topic seeks to promote comprehensive and innovative solutions to complex One Health challenges.We welcome original research articles, systematic reviews, and perspective papers addressing, but not limited to, the following topics:• State-of-the-art culture-dependent and culture-independent approaches to characterize AMR, including traditional genomic epidemiology of AMR, as well as multi-omics technologies• Comprehensive surveillance strategies to monitor AMR among urban and/or suburban populations, including animal reservoirs and veterinary settings• Epidemiological approaches to identify transmission pathways for AMR at the interface of interconnected sectors — including human, animal, and environmental — within the One-Health framework• Environmental transport and fate of AMR, and their implications for public, animal, and environmental health• Characterization of public health risks associated with AMR across one or more exposure routes, including food ingestion, contact with livestock and companion animals, veterinary antimicrobial use, drinking water, and inhalation. Topic editors: Jangwoo Lee, Sylvia Omulo, Elisabet Marti, Xiaole Yin Source: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/81846/one-health-approaches-to-antimicrobial-resistance-transmission-and-transport-across-human-environment-agriculture-interfaces