Towards Unified Data Exchange Formats for Reporting Molecular Drug Susceptibility Testing

摘要

With the rapid development of new advanced molecular detection methods,identification of new genetic mutations conferring pathogen resistance to anever-growing variety of antimicrobial substances will generate massivegenomic datasets for public health and clinical laboratories. Keeping upwith specialized standard coding for these immense datasets will beextremely challenging. This challenge prompted our effort to create a commonmolecular resistance Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes (LOINC)panel that can be used to report any identified antimicrobial resistancepattern.