Hyderabad, April 7 -- Researchers from the CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) and the LV Prasad Eye Institute have found alarming levels of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in bacteria causing eye infections, underscoring the need for microbiology-guided diagnosis and treatment.
The collaborative study, published in "Communications Biology", represents one of the most comprehensive genomic analyses of eye pathogens from India to date.
It was led by Dr Karthik Bharadwaj and Dr Divya Tej Sowpati from CSIR-CCMB and Dr Joveeta Joseph from LVPEI.
The researchers found that over 45 per cent of bacterial isolates from patient samples were multidrug-resistant, including both Gram-positive and Gram-negative pathogens.
These incl...