How to start monitoring antibiotic resistance

By: Resistomap Team

Resistomap's autumn webinar series has been focused on increasing awareness of antibiotic resistance by showcasing research and projects on various environments. Due to popular demand, we shifted towards a more practical focus this time around with the topic: “Monitoring antibiotic resistance: How to get started".

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Monitoring antibiotic resistance in the natural environment: What does the fox's bacteria say?

By: Mattias Szczesny

This month our webinar ventured into the forests and mountains as we got to look into intriguing research involving Portuguese wildlife, presented by Dr. Tania Caetano. 

Dr. Caetano and her team have been researching antibiotic resistance in animals living in environments that we would not usually expect when thinking about antibiotic resistance. With pleasantly drawn visual representations we got to visit some of our furry friends, specifically the wild boar, red deer, red fox, and European otters. These animals were chosen because of their different levels of shyness, preferred habitat, and diet, which made for some quite interesting findings.

Following the presentation on the wildlife research, we moved from the forests to the rivers with CEO Windi Muziasari showing very interesting visualisations comparing the presence and abundance of antibiotic resistance genes in different zones as we follow a river from its source, all the way to the sea.

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Webinar summary:
Getting to know the science behind Resistomap

by Bernadetta A. Ginting-Szczesny

Resistomap monthly webinar series has returned! The webinars this autumn are centred on the science and application of antibiotic resistance monitoring. The August webinar was the first in this series. We had Resistomap’s Scientific Advisor Prof. James Tiedje and CEO Dr. Windi Muziasari presenting the science behind Resistomap’s antibiotic resistance monitoring service.

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Monitoring ARGs in Vietnam: current development and future directions

by Agatha Priandini

This June marks the final session on our webinar series covering antibiotic resistance surveillance in lowe and middle- income countries. In this final webinar, we had guest speakers Dr. Hoang Huy Tran from the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology (NIHE), Vietnam, and Dr. Ikuro Kasuga from , the University of Tokyo , Japan. During this webinar, we had the chance to understand the current situation of antimicrobial resistance surveillance in Vietnam, as speakers explain their projects monitoring clinical and environmental issues in Vietnam’s battle against antibiotic resistances.

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Monitoring ARGs in Nepal:
commendable antimicrobial resistance (AMR) research in Nepal, yet fight against AMR still continues.

by Kul Shanker Shrestha

As part of the monthly webinar series: Monitoring antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs), the May webinar focused on AMR (antimicrobial resistance) research in Nepal. Two dynamic invited-speakers Dr. Dibesh Karmacharya (Chairman/Executive Director of Center for Molecular Dynamics – Nepal (CMDN)) and Adarsh Man Sherchan (conservation geneticist and founder of Bagmati Biome Project) gave insights to their ongoing and prospective AMR research in Nepal. Panel discussion followed the presentations where speakers answered questions from the audience, and the webinar ended with closing remarks from the speakers. Jesse Majlander (operation manager at Resistomap) hosted the session.

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Monitoring ARGs in Latin America:
how should we be farming our chickens?

by Agatha Priandini

In continuation of Resistomap’s Spring webinar series this April, we had the honor of having US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief research fellow Dr. Hayden Hedman and University of Michigan PhD candidate Karla Vasco touch on the topic of antimicrobial resistance in Latin America. Speaking at the intersection of epidemiology and antibiotic resistance, our guest speakers illustrated the implications of AMR as an ecology that catalyzes the spread of infectious diseases caused by resistant microbes at the interface of humans and animals. With the phenomenal growth in smallholder poultry farming, the question really pushes itself forward - how should we be farming our chickens?

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AMR Mitigation in Indonesian Agriculture:
farm to fork monitoring

by Agatha Priandini

 In continuation of Resistomap’s Monitoring Antibiotic Resistance Genes (ARGs) in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMIC’s) webinar series, this March webinar highlighted the implication of ARGs in Indonesia. Our keynote speakers included Dr. Gunawan Budi Utomo (FAO Indonesia), Prof. Siti Subandiyah (Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia), and Dr. Windi Muziasari (Resistomap, Finland). Offering insight into the ARGs in Indonesian agriculture, this webinar session emphasized the overarching importance of ‘farm-to-fork’ antimicrobial resistance (AMR).

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Webinar summary: AMRIWA results suggest water is a key source of antimicrobial resistance
genes in West Africa

by: Lotta Peussa

Resistomap hosted the first webinar from its Monitoring Antibiotic Resistant Genes (ARGs) in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs) webinar series in February. In the webinar, Dr Alidehou Jerrold Agbankpe and Dr Kaisa Haukka provided an overview of the antimicrobial resistance (AMR) situation in Benin and presented preliminary results from their interdisciplinary research project looking for resistance gene hotspots in West Africa using the One Health approach. In this blogpost, Lotta Peussa summarises the webinar presentations.

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Fighting antibiotic resistance in the environment
– a first look

by: Lotta Peussa

Resistomap hosted a webinar in November 2020 on antibiotic resistance in the environment, as part of its webinar series on Fighting Antibiotic Resistance in the Environment. In the webinar, world-leading researchers and experts shared insights based on their work and discussed the best strategies to avoid further emergence and spread of antibiotic resistance. In this blog article, I summarise my key takeaways from the webinar.

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How to start monitoring antibiotic resistance