| Literature DB >> 26818666 |
Basil Britto Xavier1, Anupam J Das1, Guy Cochrane2, Sandra De Ganck1, Samir Kumar-Singh3, Frank Møller Aarestrup4, Herman Goossens1, Surbhi Malhotra-Kumar5.
Abstract
The unrestricted use of antibiotics has resulted in rapid acquisition of antibiotic resistance (AR) and spread of multidrug-resistant (MDR) bacterial pathogens. With the advent of next-generation sequencing technologies and their application in understanding MDR pathogen dynamics, it has become imperative to unify AR gene data resources for easy accessibility for researchers. However, due to the absence of a centralized platform for AR gene resources, availability, consistency, and accuracy of information vary considerably across different databases. In this article, we explore existing AR gene data resources in order to make them more visible to the clinical microbiology community, to identify their limitations, and to propose potential solutions.Mesh:
Year: 2016 PMID: 26818666 PMCID: PMC4809949 DOI: 10.1128/JCM.02717-15
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Clin Microbiol ISSN: 0095-1137 Impact factor: 5.948