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Become a citizen scientist in the fight against antibiotic resistance

Sign up to a project called Infection Inspection and help researchers confront the rogue microbes that threaten to unleash an apocalypse of untreatable disease

By Layal Liverpool

15 March 2023

microscope images showing ciprofloxacin-resistant E. coli (credit: University of Oxford)

A zoomed-out view of ciprofloxacin-resistant E.coli

University of Oxford

THE antibiotic ciprofloxacin should stop E. coli bacteria in their tracks, yet the strain I am looking at in a microscope image is resisting the drug’s effect. The signs of this are subtle, but I have learned to spot them – and so can you – by participating in the Infection Inspection project.

The researchers behind this endeavour have an ambitious goal: to develop a test that uses artificial intelligence to rapidly predict how bacteria are likely to respond to commonly available antibiotics. Using thousands…

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