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 of microscope images of antibiotic-resistant and…
