Superbug origins: high throughput culture, isolation and sequencing of environmental Acinetobacters

• Main Author: Tan, Ching Hai
• Other Authors: Duan Hongwei
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2023
• Subjects: Engineering::Bioengineering
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/166748
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Acinetobacter baumannii (A. baumannii) is an opportunistic nosocomial pathogen [1] responsible for a larger number of deaths globally due to the rise of antibiotic resistance genes. Current methods of bacterial isolation, classification and characterisation are too slow and at times expensive, requi...