TY - JOUR
T1 - Identification and Antibiotic-Susceptibility Profiling of Infectious Bacterial Agents: A Review of Current and Future Trends
AU - Maugeri, Gaetano
AU - Lychko, Iana
AU - Sobral, Rita
AU - Roque, Ana C. A.
N1 - This work was supported by the European Research Council through the grant reference SCENT-ERC-2014-STG-639123 (2015-2020), and by the Unidade de Ciencias Biomoleculares Aplicadas-UCIBIO, which is financed by national funds from FCT/MEC (UID/Multi/04378/2013) and co-financed by the ERDF under the PT2020 Partnership Agreement (POCI-01-0145-FEDER-007728).
PY - 2019/1/1
Y1 - 2019/1/1
N2 - Antimicrobial resistance is one of the most worrying threats to humankind with extremely high healthcare costs associated. The current technologies used in clinical microbiology to identify the bacterial agent and profile antimicrobial susceptibility are time-consuming and frequently expensive. As a result, physicians prescribe empirical antimicrobial therapies. This scenario is often the cause of therapeutic failures, causing higher mortality rates and healthcare costs, as well as the emergence and spread of antibiotic resistant bacteria. As such, new technologies for rapid identification of the pathogen and antimicrobial susceptibility testing are needed. This review summarizes the current technologies, and the promising emerging and future alternatives for the identification and profiling of antimicrobial resistance bacterial agents, which are expected to revolutionize the field of clinical diagnostics.
AB - Antimicrobial resistance is one of the most worrying threats to humankind with extremely high healthcare costs associated. The current technologies used in clinical microbiology to identify the bacterial agent and profile antimicrobial susceptibility are time-consuming and frequently expensive. As a result, physicians prescribe empirical antimicrobial therapies. This scenario is often the cause of therapeutic failures, causing higher mortality rates and healthcare costs, as well as the emergence and spread of antibiotic resistant bacteria. As such, new technologies for rapid identification of the pathogen and antimicrobial susceptibility testing are needed. This review summarizes the current technologies, and the promising emerging and future alternatives for the identification and profiling of antimicrobial resistance bacterial agents, which are expected to revolutionize the field of clinical diagnostics.
KW - antimicrobial resistance
KW - antimicrobial susceptibility profiling
KW - bacteria identification
KW - clinical microbiology
KW - diagnostic methods
KW - infectious diseases
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U2 - 10.1002/biot.201700750
DO - 10.1002/biot.201700750
M3 - Article
C2 - 30024110
AN - SCOPUS:85052470675
SN - 1860-6768
VL - 14
JO - Biotechnology Journal
JF - Biotechnology Journal
IS - 1
M1 - 1700750
ER -
