Antibiotic Use: The Crystal Ball for Predicting Antibiotic Resistance

Predicting Antibiotic Resistance, Not Just for Quinolones

The ability to better understand and predict the onset of antibiotic resistance to new drugs is needed. Antibiotic resistance has become an emerging issue of concern, and there are emphases to minimize its escalation. The number of cases of antibiotic resistant infections is increasing, as are the numbers of multidrug resistant bacteria. As a result, more antibiotics are becoming of limited use...

Controlling antibiotic use and resistance.

Predicting antibiotic resistance from genomic data

Cutting-edge machine learning tools have shown significant promise for infectious disease control using the bacterial genome. In this chapter, an overview of key problems of clinical microbiology surrounding infectious disease management, antibiotic resistance, and clinical susceptibility test to antimicrobial drugs, will be provided, followed by an introduction of genomic data used in genotypi...

Rationalizing antibiotic use to limit antibiotic resistance in India+

Antibiotic resistance, a global concern, is particularly pressing in developing nations, including India, where the burden of infectious disease is high and healthcare spending is low. The Global Antibiotic Resistance Partnership (GARP) was established to develop actionable policy recommendations specifically relevant to low- and middle-income countries where suboptimal access to antibiotics - ...

Resist antibiotic use before resistance spreads

Objective Urinary tract infection (UTI) is one of the common complaints with which patients present to the emergency department. There are very few studies from our part of the country for UTI. The most commonly used antibiotics are fluoroquinolones, nitrofurantoin and aminoglycosides. The objective of this study was to evaluate the characteristics of bacteria involved in UTI and the prevalent ...