Antibacterial resistance (also called antimicrobial resistance or AMR) is a global health emergency, but when you’re sick all you want to do is feel better as soon as possible. University of Oxford researchers are developing a new test for bacterial infections to make that possible, while also contributing to more effective antibiotic stewardship – a key component of global efforts to combat the dangerous rise of antibiotic-resistant infections.
The Oxford Martin Programme on Antimicrobial Resistance Testing is developing a new type of medical test powered by AI that is portable and accessible anywhere, from a hospital to a pharmacy to a field tent serving victims of a natural disaster. The aim is to be able to determine the cause of an infection and how best to treat it, all within 30 minutes.
Find out more on our long read: https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/long-read/combatting-antimicrobial-resistance/
Join our citizen science project: https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/conor-feehily/infection-inspection
Oxford Martin School,
University of Oxford
www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk
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we believe in a future where targeted antibiotic use is possible to save lives and preserve our ability to tackle bacterial infections for future Generations if a patient is feeling ill they would come into a clinic and that a sample would be taken so we can work out whether there's bacteria in the sample or not and what species they are once we know the species we can then decide on which antibiotics to apply to those bacteria watch them grow and that will tell us tell the clinician which antib
iotics to prescribe doing that both helps the patient get better faster but also minimizes the risk of sort of any side effects also over the longer term and the population level we think that optimizing prescribing and using the right drug for each situation would limit or slow the emergence of antibiotic resistance
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