Tag: antibiotic resistance

Antimicrobial Resistance – Genomes, Big Data and Emerging Technologies (Virtual Conference)

Third Wellcome Connecting Science meeting on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR). This year’s programme will include antimicrobial discovery and global trends in AMR, in addition to the focus on genomic evidence and the other tools for surveillance. It will highlight the recent advances in the rapidly emerging field of machine learning and GWAS methods to predict AMR. […]

Enterococcus strains in probiotics may carry antimicrobial resistance genes

Researchers at Kansas State University have discovered that Enterococcus faecium strains, isolated from commercial probiotic products for pigs and cattle, may pose risk to serve as a source of transmitting antimicrobial resistance genes to other gut bacteria. Their study is published in the Journal of Animal Science. Raghavendra Amachawadi, assistant professor of food animal therapeutics […]

STAR-IDAZ IRC Workshop: ‘Taking new alternatives to antibiotics to market and the associated challenges’

STAR-IDAZ IRC working group on alternatives to antibiotics: one of a series of five virtual workshops.

STAR-IDAZ IRC Workshop ‘How antibiotics work as growth promoters’

STAR-IDAZ IRC working group on alternatives to antibiotics: one of a series of five virtual workshops.

STAR-IDAZ IRC Workshop ‘The role of microbiome in maintenance of health, and how it can be manipulated’

STAR-IDAZ IRC working group on alternatives to antibiotics: one of a series of five virtual workshops.