AIMC Topic: beta-Lactamases

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Machine-learning-based risk assessment tool to rule out empirical use of ESBL-targeted therapy in endemic areas.

The Journal of hospital infection
BACKGROUND: Antimicrobial stewardship focuses on identifying patients who require extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL)-targeted therapy. 'Rule-in' tools have been researched extensively in areas of low endemicity; however, such tools are inadequat...

Characterization of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase and carbapenemase genes in bacteria from environment in Burkina Faso.

Journal of infection in developing countries
INTRODUCTION: This study aimed to characterize extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL) and carbapenemase genes in bacteria from the environment in Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso.

What are the most relevant publications in Clinical Microbiology in the last two years?

Revista espanola de quimioterapia : publicacion oficial de la Sociedad Espanola de Quimioterapia
This minireview describes some of the articles published in the last two years related to innovative technologies including CRISPR-Cas, surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy, microfluidics, flow cytometry, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, and a...

Performance of the Vitek 2 Advanced Expert System (AES) as a Rapid Tool for Reporting Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing (AST) in from North and Latin America.

Microbiology spectrum
This study evaluated the performance of the Vitek 2 Advanced Expert System (AES) confidence level report as a rapid tool for reporting antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) results for a challenging set of isolates from North and Latin America....

ECNet is an evolutionary context-integrated deep learning framework for protein engineering.

Nature communications
Machine learning has been increasingly used for protein engineering. However, because the general sequence contexts they capture are not specific to the protein being engineered, the accuracy of existing machine learning algorithms is rather limited....

Evaluation of the VITEK 2 Advanced Expert System performance for predicting resistance mechanisms in Enterobacterales acquired from a hospital-based screening program.

Pathology
There is limited literature examining the accuracy of the VITEK 2 Advanced Expert System (AES) in characterisation of β-lactamase resistance patterns. We present a prospective single centre study to better ascertain the performance characteristics of...

Low-N protein engineering with data-efficient deep learning.

Nature methods
Protein engineering has enormous academic and industrial potential. However, it is limited by the lack of experimental assays that are consistent with the design goal and sufficiently high throughput to find rare, enhanced variants. Here we introduce...

HMD-ARG: hierarchical multi-task deep learning for annotating antibiotic resistance genes.

Microbiome
BACKGROUND: The spread of antibiotic resistance has become one of the most urgent threats to global health, which is estimated to cause 700,000 deaths each year globally. Its surrogates, antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs), are highly transmittable be...

Deep learning model for prediction of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL) production in community-onset Enterobacteriaceae bacteraemia from a high ESBL prevalence multi-centre cohort.

European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology
Adequate empirical antimicrobial coverage is instrumental in clinical management of community-onset Enterobacteriaceae bacteraemia in areas with high ESBL prevalence, while balancing the risk of carbapenem overuse and emergence of carbapenem-resistan...

Amplification Curve Analysis: Data-Driven Multiplexing Using Real-Time Digital PCR.

Analytical chemistry
Information about the kinetics of PCR reactions is encoded in the amplification curve. However, in digital PCR (dPCR), this information is typically neglected by collapsing each amplification curve into a binary output (positive/negative). Here, we d...