The hospital microbiome project [electronic resource] : meeting report for the UK science and innovation network UK-USA workshop ?beating the superbugs hospital microbiome studies for tackling antimicrobial resistance?, October 14th 2013

• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 578.1 Natural history of organisms and related subjects
• Thông tin xuất bản: Washington, D.C. : Oak Ridge, Tenn. : United States. Dept. of Energy. Office of Science ; Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy, 2014
• Mô tả vật lý: Size: Article No. 12 : , digital, PDF file.
• Bộ sưu tập: Metadata
• ID: 261478
• Chủ đề: 1. 59 basic biological sciences; 2. 60 applied life sciences; 3. Antibiotic resistance; 4. Genetics & heredity; 5. Hospital microbiome; 6. Microbiology; 7. Nosocomial infections; 8. Superbugs

Tóm tắt

 The UK Science and Innovation Network UK-USA workshop ?Beating the Superbugs: Hospital Microbiome Studies for tackling Antimicrobial Resistance? was held on October 14th 2013 at the UK Department of Health, London. The workshop was designed to promote US-UK collaboration on hospital microbiome studies to add a new facet to our collective understanding of antimicrobial resistance. The assembled researchers debated the importance of the hospital microbial community in transmission of disease and as a reservoir for antimicrobial resistance genes, and discussed methodologies, hypotheses, and priorities. A number of complementary approaches were explored, although the importance of the built environment microbiome in disease transmission was not universally accepted. Current whole genome epidemiological methods are being pioneered in the UK and the benefits of moving to community analysis are not necessarily obvious to the pioneers
  however, rapid progress in other areas of microbiology suggest to some researchers that hospital microbiome studies will be exceptionally fruitful even in the short term. Collaborative studies will recombine different strengths to tackle the international problems of antimicrobial resistance and hospital and healthcare associated infections.