Antibiotic Resistance: Genomics & Public Health

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Antibiotic Resistance: Genomics & Public Health

CDC information: White House announces national strategy for combating antibiotic-resistant bacteria

CDC initiative: Detect and protect against antibiotic resistance 

CDC information: Each year in the United States, at least 2 million people become infected with bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics and at least 23,000 people die each year as a direct result of these infections

NIH blog post: New strategies in battle against antibiotic resistance include expansion of DNA sequencing capacity and collection of those microbial genetic sequences in a centralized National Database of Resistant Pathogens, by Drs. Anthony S. Fauci and Francis Collins, Sep 18

US vows to combat antibiotic resistance -strategy lauded, but some fear it is lax on agricultural use, by Sara Reardon, Nature News, Sep 23

New US strategy on antimicrobial resistance launched, by Dr Philippa Brice, PHG Foundation, Sep 22

Superbugs meet their match in rapid genome sequencing
Sample I. Guardian, Sep 12, 2014.

How bacterial genomes could help tackle antibiotic resistance, by Leila Lehushi, PHG Foundation, Aug 10

Podcast Q&A: How genomics can tackle antimicrobial resistance, from SciDevNet, May 2014

CDC Advanced Molecular Detective Initiative project includes a project on genomic sequencing of Neisseria gonorrhoeae to respond to the urgent threat of antimicrobial-resistant gonorrhea