Antimicrobial resistance

Results showed the presence of AMR genes in Salmonella isolated from raw mussels and highlights the need for continuing surveillance of this food commodity. There is a need for public health authorities and mussel producers to ensure correct management, an efficient purification process and extensive sanitary control in ready-to-eat molluscs.

A highly multi-disciplinary team of Michigan State University scientists have designed a study to probe how the intestinal microbiome of dairy cattle affects antibiotic resistance, a problem plaguing farms across the country.

Dealing with antibiotic resistance – one of the biggest challenges in modern healthcare – will get a tad easier, thanks to a team of professors at Anna University, Chennai, which has developed a device called antibiogramoscope.