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SUBMITTER: Simmons MD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7601551 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Simmons Matthew D MD Miller Lisa M LM Sundström Malin O MO Johnson Steven S
Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) 20200929 10
The misuse of antibiotics in health care has led to increasing levels of drug resistant infections (DRI's) occurring in the general population. Most technologies developed for the detection of DRI's typically focus on phenotyping or genotyping bacterial resistance rather than on the underlying cause and spread of DRI's; namely the misuse of antibiotics. An aptameric based assay has been developed for the monitoring of ampicillin in urine samples, for use in determining optimal antibiotic dosage ...[more]