The hospital microbiome project: 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
| Autor: | Daniel J. Wilson, Dawn Field, David A. Spratt, Beryl Oppenheim, Mark Sutton, Jack A. Gilbert, Andrew R. Green, Anthony Kessel, Derrick W. Crook, David W. Cleary, Julian Parkhill, Julie V. Robotham, Emma Hutley, Peter R. Wilson, Chris Smith, Michael Ball, Tony Pickering, Peter Hoffman, J.T. Walker, Ginny Moore, Ghada Zoubiane, Matthew Burnett, Claire Kidgell, Jack H. Westwood, Gabriella Gilkes, Alison Holmes, Mark H. Wilcox, Philip Marsh, Neil Woodford, Benjamin C. Kirkup, Sally Wellsteed, Susan Hopkins, Lara Bethke, Josh Quick, Martin Anyim, Anna Cichowska |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Medical Research Council (MRC), National Institute for Health Research |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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Healthcare associated infections
Antibiotic resistance Biology Meeting Report 03 medical and health sciences Community analysis Nosocomial infections Genetics Microbiome Built environment 030304 developmental biology 0303 health sciences Medical education 030306 microbiology business.industry Superbugs 3. Good health Biotechnology Hospital microbiome Biology and Microbiology Health Medicine Antimicrobial resistance genes business Disease transmission |
| Zdroj: | Standards in Genomic Sciences |
| ISSN: | 1944-3277 |
| Popis: | © 2014 Westwood et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 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. |
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