Researchers develop software to find drug-resistant bacteria

Sailender26 Aug, 2020Health

Researchers have developed an easy-to-use software program to identify drug-resistant genes in bacteria. This innovation could make it easier to identify the deadly antimicrobial-resistant bacteria that exist in the environment. Such microbes annually cause more than 2.8 million, difficult-to-treat pneumonia, bloodstream, and other infections and are also responsible for 35,000 deaths in the U.S. As large-scale genetic sequencing has become easier, researchers are looking for AMR genes in the environment. The researchers have developed a software package that can be easily downloaded and used by other researchers to look for AMR in large pools of genetic material.