Accelerating antibiotic discovery through artificial intelligence

MCR Melo, JRMA Maasch… - Communications …, 2021 - nature.com
By targeting invasive organisms, antibiotics insert themselves into the ancient struggle of the
host-pathogen evolutionary arms race. As pathogens evolve tactics for evading antibiotics …

Using genomics to track global antimicrobial resistance

RS Hendriksen, V Bortolaia, H Tate, GH Tyson… - Frontiers in public …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The recent advancements in rapid and affordable DNA sequencing technologies have
revolutionized diagnostic microbiology and microbial surveillance. The availability of …

ResFinder–an open online resource for identification of antimicrobial resistance genes in next-generation sequencing data and prediction of phenotypes from …

AF Florensa, RS Kaas, PTLC Clausen… - Microbial …, 2022 - microbiologyresearch.org
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the most important health threats globally. The
ability to accurately identify resistant bacterial isolates and the individual antimicrobial …

The PATRIC Bioinformatics Resource Center: expanding data and analysis capabilities

JJ Davis, AR Wattam, RK Aziz, T Brettin… - Nucleic acids …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The PathoSystems Resource Integration Center (PATRIC) is the bacterial
Bioinformatics Resource Center funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious …

Innovative and rapid antimicrobial susceptibility testing systems

A van Belkum, CAD Burnham, JWA Rossen… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a major threat to human health worldwide, and the rapid
detection and quantification of resistance, combined with antimicrobial stewardship, are key …

Fighting antibiotic resistance in hospital-acquired infections: current state and emerging technologies in disease prevention, diagnostics and therapy

E Avershina, V Shapovalova, G Shipulin - Frontiers in microbiology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Rising antibiotic resistance is a global threat that is projected to cause more deaths than all
cancers combined by 2050. In this review, we set to summarize the current state of antibiotic …

Genome-based prediction of bacterial antibiotic resistance

M Su, SW Satola, TD Read - Journal of clinical microbiology, 2019 - Am Soc Microbiol
Clinical microbiology has long relied on growing bacteria in culture to determine
antimicrobial susceptibility profiles, but the use of whole-genome sequencing for antibiotic …

Machine learning for antimicrobial resistance prediction: current practice, limitations, and clinical perspective

JI Kim, F Maguire, KK Tsang, T Gouliouris… - Clinical microbiology …, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a global health crisis that poses a great threat to modern
medicine. Effective prevention strategies are urgently required to slow the emergence and …

Correlation between Phenotypic and In Silico Detection of Antimicrobial Resistance in Salmonella enterica in Canada Using Staramr

A Bharat, A Petkau, BP Avery, JC Chen, JP Folster… - Microorganisms, 2022 - mdpi.com
Whole genome sequencing (WGS) of Salmonella supports both molecular typing and
detection of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Here, we evaluated the correlation between …

Molecular architecture of early dissemination and massive second wave of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in a major metropolitan area

SW Long, RJ Olsen, PA Christensen, DW Bernard… - MBio, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
We sequenced the genomes of 5,085 severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
(SARS-CoV-2) strains causing two coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) disease waves in …