Making sense of resistance genes: New technology in defining phenotypic and molecular methods in detecting and understanding bacterial resistance

Abstract

technology has been introduced in the laboratory for detecting resistance markers. This has helped the scientific and medical community in detecting and understanding antimicrobial resistance. One thing that we have learned from this new technology is that both phenotypic standardised methods and molecular techniques are needed to understand the complex evolution of resistance. Table 1 shows organisms with unusual bacterial resistances that need reference laboratory confirmation.