Antibiotics and Antibiotic Resistance

THE NEXT GENERATION APPROACH OF ANTIBIOTICS

As research into antibiotic resistance expands, it is important to adopt an explicitly proactive approach to antibiotic resistance identification and surveillance, as well as antibiotic therapy development. This proactive approach involves using a combination of functional metagenomics, next-generation sequencing and cutting-edge computational methods to monitor the evolution and dissemination of resistance before a given resistance determinant emerges in a pathogen or in the clinical setting, as well as proactively developing next-generation therapies that target these resistance determinants. Recent advances in the field highlight the promise that the next generation of resistome studies hold for characterizing and countering emerging resistance threats.