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Identification of virulence factors and antibiotic resistance markers using bacterial genomics

2016; Future Medicine; Volume: 11; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2217/fmb.15.149

1746-0921

Sofiane Bakour, Senthil Sankar, Jaishriram Rathored, Philippe Biagini, Didier Raoult, Pierre‐Edouard Fournier,

Escherichia coli research studies

In recent years, the number of multidrug-resistant bacteria has increased rapidly and several epidemics were signaled in different regions of the world. Faced with this situation that presents a major global public health concern, the development and the use of new and rapid technologies is more than urgent. The use of the next-generation sequencing platforms by microbiologists and infectious disease specialists has allowed great progress in the medical field. Here, we review the usefulness of whole-genome sequencing for the detection of virulence and antibiotic resistance associated genes.