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News • Susceptibility detection in Escherichia coli

How AI can detect antibiotic resistance in 30 minutes

A new deep-learning approach to AMR testing has been shown to detect antimicrobial susceptibility within as little as 30 minutes - significantly faster than current gold-standard approaches.

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Article • Infection control

The strain typing technologies of tomorrow

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, a non-profit hospital and medical research institution in Los Angeles, is setting new standards for quality and innovation in patient care by successfully introducing…

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News • Health communication on AMR

How to improve public understanding of “antimicrobial resistance”? Rename it

A new study on public health communication shows that the term commonly used to describe bacteria resistant to current medicines or antibiotics fails to stick in people’s memories.

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News • Achromobacter research

Cystic fibrosis: new bacteria discovery could lead to better treatments

A new research breakthrough could lead to the development of new treatments for people with compromised immune systems, such as those with cystic fibrosis.

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News • Advanced biosensor

Researchers engineer tumor-detecting bacteria

Scientists from the University of California San Diego and their colleagues in Australia have engineered bacteria that can detect the presence of tumor DNA in a live organism.

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News • Hospital pathogen Acinetobacter baumannii

More appendages = greater adaptability

German bioinformaticians have now detected an unexpected diversity of certain cell appendages in the bacterium Acinetobacter baumannii that are associated with its pathogenicity.

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