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About the Course

The course will cover the topics related to antimicrobial resistance with basic definitions and overview on antimicrobials their use and the emergence and spread of resistance. The course will guide you through the concepts and the importance of resistance spread and dissemination and how that happens. It will show you how bacteria become resistant and which mechanisms they might use for this. And as part of the course you will also receive some training in methods for antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) and detection of specific resistance in the microbiological laboratories with the basic methods available and with focus on the obtention of good quality results which can be interpreted and used for different purposes. Additionally, it will show you how to use genomic analysis tools to analyze whole genome sequencing data to detect resistance genes (and or other genes of interest) in a simple and easy way using online tools freely available. In the new new version an additional module including detection of specific resistance mechanisms was added. After this course you should be able to: 1. Describe the most important families of antimicrobials and mode of action 2. Understand the basic concepts of antimicrobial resistance from several perspectives (clinical, research and microbiological) 3. Enumerate and describe how bacteria can become resistant and the mechanisms that may be involved in that process 4. Describe how antimicrobial resistance emerges and spreads around the world including concepts of antimicrobial resistance transfer, selection and dissemination 5. Enumerate the methods used for antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) 6. Compare dilution and diffusion methods and know the basic techniques of agar disk diffusion, broth dilution and agar dilution methods 7. Have detailed theoretical knowledge on how to perform the main methods in a laboratory 8. Know the basic concepts about analysis and interpretation of results of AST, including different breakpoints, cut-off setting and their applications. 9. Understand the importance and related concepts related to quality management and quality assurance method standardization, applied to AST 10. Relate the information obtained in this course with real cases of resistant bacteria spreading in patients, the community, animals or the environment 11. Relate the phenotypical results with results from genotyping using molecular techniques for detection of resistance mechanisms 12. Understand the concept and be able to apply genomic analysis tools used to detect resistance genes and other relevant genes from Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS) data (with demonstration of selected online tools) Disclaimer: Please note that the guidelines and methods referred or links included in these materials are updated when the videos lectures are produced and before the course is released, however these might become outdated with time....

Top reviews

FH

Dec 30, 2020

As a microbiology student, I can say that I've learned so many theoretical and practical methods involving antimicrobial resistance as well as bacteriology in general. Huge thanks to great lecturers!

MW

Jul 22, 2021

Very clear and informative to give insights about what's happening in the area of antimicrobial resistance, as well as the urgency to do identification and surveilance of antimicrobial resistance

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By Cristian J R C

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Jan 22, 2017

It was a really good course, but I think there´s a lot of repetitions in many lectures. It´d be good to avoid that aspect in order to provide more information to the people.

By Islam M M M

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Sep 11, 2018

It was a very helpful and useful course , I enjoyed it very much , but I hope to be more questions during video as in sometimes get boring and too much information, Thanks.

By Soumya G

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May 4, 2020

it was very informative course on antimicrobial resistance and helped a lot in learning about the resistance gained by microbials and how it can affect in long terms.

By Rituparna S

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Jun 29, 2016

Great Course!! Some lectures were repetitive. So I'd like to suggest the course advisors to cut down on those lectures. Overall it was a great learning experience!!

By Veronica P V

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Jan 11, 2021

Very good lectures and presentations. The lectures on whole genome sequencing tools were too specific and maybe not applicable for general o clinical knowledge.

By Fábio L F

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Jul 5, 2017

Excellent content with a rich subject giving us good basis to explore and learn more on the subject and apply the acquired knowledge into many different fields.

By Lydia S

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Feb 26, 2017

I did like to course very much. However, the in the last video, although the lecturer tried to speak clearly, I didn't understand all things very well.

By urvashi m

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Jul 21, 2022

This course was really helpful in increasing my knowledge towrds the antimicrobial species and MRSA bacteria. Really helpful and learned lot of things

By vijay s

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Feb 21, 2019

it is really a good course for a microbiology student, i learned lots of things.

please add more practical evidences and discussions, if possible.

By OMOTUNDE Y M

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Sep 7, 2023

I am grateful for having such a great teacher taking this course. The whole course was explained in depth and without vagueness. Thank you @DTU

By Zion A D

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Oct 2, 2020

The explanation was good & the topics covered were really interesting, I found them too important, since it's very much related to my field.

By Jessica O

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Apr 7, 2020

I learned a lot regarding antimicrobial testing, I work with antibiotic resistance and this course allow me to know and improve my knowledge

By Sayari D

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Dec 31, 2017

Great set of teachers. This course has really helped me in clearing my concepts on Antimicrobial resistance- mechanisms and testing methods.

By PaulaNakase

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Aug 15, 2016

I really enjoyed the course, being a complete novice i found it challenging to understand some of the technical terms but learnt alot.

By DIVY S 5

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Oct 9, 2020

I gained some valuable information regarding AMR and came to know about various resistances.

Thus it was great learning with you guys

By Ahmed U S

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Aug 2, 2021

The format and instruction method was very good. Apart, the dashboard was easy to use and understandable. The quizzes were helpful.

By Adil R

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Aug 9, 2020

Great.. Informative.. Good lectures Highly recommended for the people in this field. it was my first course on Coursera. thank you.

By khadija t k

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Aug 26, 2020

This course was very much helpful.it helps me to understand all the resistance pathways of bacteria and identification tools.

By Devika P

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May 19, 2020

Thank you so much coursera for the lectures and to my tutor. I was able to understand the concepts of these course clearly.

By Mahnoor S

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Aug 21, 2023

the course is very informative.. cover all the areas of Antimicrobial Resistance. The way of methodology was quite good.

By Justin H

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Jun 18, 2020

Good overview of microbiology techniques - at times overly technical for my level but generally really well presented.

By doaa r a

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Aug 24, 2020

the course was very good and i intersted too much while studying and earn alot of new information thank you

By Odette W

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May 29, 2020

Nice overview of common used antimicrobials, resistance testing and quality control. Info is well dosed.

By zhanxw

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Apr 23, 2017

Overall, the course contents is useful. If course slides can be provided, that'll be extra helpful.

By Sanjana u

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Sep 15, 2023

It was a very informative and brief explanation of various antimicrobial resistance mechanisms