UdeC researchers teach a course focused on genomic tools applied to the study of Antibiotic Resistance

Creating awareness about the impact that antimicrobial resistance generates throughout society, encouraging the proper and rational use of these compounds in human medicine, animal medicine and the environment is what the academics of the Department of Microbiology of the Faculty of Biological Sciences and principal investigators of the LIAA, have been transmitting for years.

On this occasion, Dr. Andrés Opazo Capurro, the academic responsible for the course, comments that “these updating courses are important from a more technical point of view, especially with relevant national and international speakers and with expertise in genome sequencing and analysis. bacterial. For us it is important to deliver this type of knowledge to undergraduate and postgraduate students”.

The course will have talks focused on three modules, the first on “General aspects of resistance”, the second on “Genomic tools applied to the study of resistance in bacteria of human clinical interest” and the last on “Tools applied to resistant bacteria in animals and in environments” all this under the approach of “One health” or One Health known internationally.

An issue of great importance due to the current impact, considering that the World Health Organization (WHO) has declared that antimicrobial resistance (RAM) is one of the 10 main public health threats facing humanity. Moreover, by 2050 it is estimated that the number of deaths associated with ADR will correspond to the order of 10 million, even surpassing cancer at present, if measures are not adopted for its control and mitigation.