Travel to Asia is a strong predictor for carriage of cephalosporin resistant E. coli and Klebsiella spp. but does not explain everything; prevalence study at a Norwegian hospital 2014-2016.

Main|Search|PHGKB

Through CDC’s AR Lab Network, labs nationwide uncovered 221 instances of unusual resistance genes in “nightmare bacteria” in 2017.

Last Posted: Dec 12, 2018

---

• Travel to Asia is a strong predictor for carriage of cephalosporin resistant E. coli and Klebsiella spp. but does not explain everything; prevalence study at a Norwegian hospital 2014-2016.
  Espenhain Laura et al. Antimicrobial resistance and infection control 2018 146
• Antimicrobial resistance prediction and phylogenetic analysis of Neisseria gonorrhoeae isolates using the Oxford Nanopore MinION sequencer.
  Golparian Daniel et al. Scientific reports 2018 Dec (1) 17596
• Investigation of a Carbapenemase-producing Acinetobacter baumannii outbreak using whole genome sequencing versus a standard epidemiologic investigation.
  Bogaty Chloe et al. Antimicrobial resistance and infection control 2018 140
• Antimicrobial Resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae: Proceedings of the STAR Sexually Transmitted Infection-Clinical Trial Group Programmatic Meeting.
  Cristillo Anthony D et al. Sexually transmitted diseases 2018 Oct
• Why Surveillance of Antimicrobial Resistance needs to be Automated and Comprehensive.
  O'Brien Thomas F et al. Journal of global antimicrobial resistance 2018 Oct
• Children with cystic fibrosis are infected with multiple subpopulations of Mycobacterium abscessus with different antimicrobial resistance profiles
  Shaw LP, et al. bioRxiv, Oct 5, 2018.
• FLASH: A next-generation CRISPR diagnostic for multiplexed detection of antimicrobial resistance sequences
  Quan J, et al. bioRxiv, Sep 27, 2018.
• Wellcome Sanger Institute at 25: how the genomic revolution is changing medicine
  Wellcome Sanger, September 2018
• Whole genome sequencing reveals genetic signature of bedaquiline resistance in a clinical isolate of Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
  Chawla Kiran et al. Journal of global antimicrobial resistance 2018 Sep
• Towards national systems for continuous surveillance of antimicrobial resistance: Lessons from tuberculosis.
  Suthar Amitabh B et al. PLoS medicine 2018 Sep (9) e1002658

more